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WILLIAM  H.  HARVEY 


All  Royalty  Received  by  the  Author  From 
the  Publication  of  This  Book  Will  Be  Used 
to   Promote    the    Organization   It  Founds 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 
THE  MUNDUS  PUBLISHING   COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 
1915 


Copyright,  1915 

By 

William  Hope  Harvey 

The  Author 


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PREFACE 

THIS  book  is  written  to  give  a  remedy 
for  the  emancipation  of  the  human 
race  from  evil  conditions  now  existing 
in  the  world;  and  to  provide  an  organiza- 
tion to  carry  the  remedy  into  effect. 


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CHAPTER  I 

AT  the  time  this  is  written  and  this 
A%  book  is  printed,  winter  of  1914-15, 
there  is  general  restlessness  through- 
out the,  so-called,  civilized  world.  Against 
evils  that  exist  there  have  long  been 
attempts  at  reformation  and  a  titanic  strug- 
gle continues  between  good  and  evil.  There 
are  many  who  believe  that  good  will 
triumph  and  their  number  is  large.  There 
are  others  who  believe  that  evil  is  increas- 
ing and  are  losing  hope  that  Good  will 
triumph  over  Evil  and  their  number  is 
growing. 

There  are  those  who  believe  that  we 
have  a  rising  civilization  and  those  who  be- 
lieve that  we  have  a  declining  civilization. 
The  true  test  as  to  whether  we  have  a  rising 
or  declining  civilization,  is  as  to  whether 
there  is  a  decrease  or  increase  in  crimes, 
suicides,  insanity,  tenantry  and  divorces.  If 
the  number  thus  affected  is  decreasing,  then 
we  have  a  rising  civilization ;  if  crimes,  sui- 
cides, insanity,  tenantry  and  divorces  are 
all  increasing  in  number,  then  it  will  hardly 
be  questioned  that  we  have  a  declining  civi- 
lization. If  this  increase  has  been  going 
on  over  a  period  of  years  and  continues  to 
increase  indefinitely,  an  increase  dispropor- 
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6  THE  REMEDY 

tionate  to  increase  in  population,  then  it  is 
only  a  question  of  time  when  our  civiliza- 
tion will  be  torn  to  pieces  and  will  have 
passed  beyond  the  stage  of  recovery. 

Many  judge  the  advance  or  decline  of 
our  civilization  from  a  viewpoint  of  our 
inventions  and  discoveries  in  the  arts  and 
sciences.  If  these  are  advancing,  it  is  re- 
garded by  them  as  an  advancing  civiliza- 
tion. We  have  had  one  instance  of  this  in 
the  known  history  of  the  human  race.  At 
the  time  of  the  fall  of  the  Roman  civiliza- 
tion and  the  coming  of  the  Dark  Age,  arts 
and  sciences  were  making  wonderful  strides 
and  the  wealth  of  the  known  world  was 
pouring  into  the  Roman  empire.  The  weal- 
thy class  was  growing  wealthier  and  great 
national  improvements  were  in  progress. 
But  tenantry  and  poverty  were  increasing 
with  all  the  demoralizing  attendant  results 
that  mark  our  civilization  of  today.  The 
voice  of  alarm  was  then  raised  throughout 
the  land  as  it  is  being  heard  today.  It  was 
true  then  and  is  true  now : 

**I11  fares  the  land,  to  hastening 

ills  a  prey, 
Where  wealth  accumulates  and 

men  decay. ' ' 

The  voice  of  alarm  was  not  heeded  and 
Roman  civilization,  with  its  improvements, 


THE  REMEDY  7 

arts  and  sciences,  was  engulfed  in  a  sea  of 
human  savagery.  At  that  time  the  world 
was  only  partly  inhabited  and  many  fled 
to  uninhabited  parts  of  it  and  there  rehabil- 
itated civilization.  There  are  now  no  unin- 
habited parts  of  the  world  to  which  a  dis- 
tressed people  can  flee. 

By  a  test  of  the  increasing  number  in 
crimes,  suicides,  insanity,  tenantry  and  di- 
vorces, ours  is  now  a  declining  civilization. 
The  foundation  of  our  civilization  is  being 
undermined,  and  if  the  increase  is  to  con- 
tinue, may  it  not  be  foreseen  with  accuracy 
that  our  arts  and  sciences  and  wonderful 
inventions  and  improvements  will  be  lost 
in  an  era  of  mental  and  moral  dementia  and 
engulfed  in  a  sea  of  human  savagery. 

I  am  not  giving  the  statistics  as  to  the 
increase  in  crimes,  suicides,  insanity,  ten- 
antry and  divorces,  all  increasing  dispro- 
portionately and  faster  than  increase  in 
population,  for  they  are  now  a  part  of  our 
daily  reading.  There  lies  before  me  the 
Gazette,  of  Salisaw,  Oklahoma,  of  the  cur- 
rent week's  issue,  which  says:  ** Accord- 
ing to  a  recent  bulletin  issued  by  the  Census 
Department,  we  have  in  Sequoyah  County, 
3,249  farm  homes  and  of  this  number  952 
are  occupied  by  owners  and  2,297  are  occu- 
pied by  tenants."*  This  may  be,  and  no 
doubt  is,  an  instance  where  the  proportion 

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THE  REMEDY  9 

of  tenants  to  owners  is  exceptionally  large ; 
but  it  is  alluded  to  here  to  say  that  it  has  be- 
come so  common  to  read  of  the  increase  in 
crimes,  suicides,  insanity,  tenantry  and  di- 
vorces that  it  is  being  accepted  as  natural 
and  as  something  to  be  lamented  but  that 
cannot  be  avoided.  We  do  not  realize  the 
tremendous  import  of  it  and  of  the  coming 
disaster  it  foreshadows. 

In  treating  a  physical  disease,  we  first 
look  at  the  effect  produced  on  the  body  by 
the  disease,  then  we  search  for  the  cause, 
and  finding  that,  we  look  for  the  remedy. 

A  Brief  Statement  of  Facts 

Briefly  stated,  we  find  ourselves  in  the 
following  condition:  Wealth  is  centering 
rapidly  in  the  possession  of  a  few.  Fifty 
years  ago,  here  in  the  United  States,  and 
the  same  is  true  in  the  other  principal  na- 
tions, we  rarely  found  a  citizen  worth  more 
than  $100,000.  Twenty  years  ago  we  had 
millionaires ;  and  now  we  have  billionaires 
— so  rapid  has  been  the  concentration  of 
wealth,  all  within  the  lifetime  of  men  now 
living.  Where  the  few  own  so  much,  the 
average  ownership  of  the  many  is  lessened, 
as  represented  by  what  they  possess,  minus 
the  debts  they  owe.  In  this  we  should  in- 
clude those  who  are  worth  nothing  and  the 
unemployed,  and  their  number  has  in- 
creased until  it  is  startling. 


10  THE  REMEDY 

There  is  now  an  almost  hopeless  condi- 
tion of  debt  existing  throughout  the  world, 
on  which  there  is  an  annual  toll  sufficient 
to  impoverish  a  people.  The  debts  of  the 
world,  public  and  private,  have  grown  so 
great  that  the  annual  interest  exceeds  the 
total  money  volume  in  the  world;  and  to 
keep  money,  a  medium  of  exchange,  in  cir- 
culation, upon  which  civilization  is  depend- 
ent, we  are  now  paying  an  enormous  pen- 
alty; a  penalty  that  is  dragging  us  down, 
as  a  people,  and  increasing  distress. 

The  strife  for  existence  and  to  meet 
financial  obligations  may  be  seen  on  every 
hand ;  and  the  downfall  of  one  pulls  others 
down  with  him.  Covetousness  of  wealth 
has  no  limit  placed  upon  it  and  is  protected 
by  law.  A  man  may  own  a  whole  state  or 
own  all,  and  the  law  is  shaped  to  protect 
him.  It  sees  no  error  in  it.  Public  senti- 
ment seems  to  be  fixed  that  there  should  be 
an  open  field  for  each  to  get  all  he  can,  un- 
mindful of  its  effect  on  the  human  race  and 
on  civilization. 

Politics  is  made  a  trade  of,  and  men  try- 
ing to  secure  office,  as  a  rule,  are  seeking 
their  own  vain  and  selfish  promotion.  Few 
who  are  elected  to  office,  appreciate  the  true 
value  of  promoting  the  common  good ;  and 
only  a  small  number  of  those  elected  to 
Congress  and  the  Legislatures  are  studying 


THE  REMEDY  11 

civilization,  other  than  from  a  local  and 
selfish  point  of  view ;  and  few  of  them  ap- 
preciate the  opportunity  that  is  theirs  for 
constructive  legislation  in  the  making  of  a 
better  civilization.  High  ideals  are  being 
forgotten  and  statesmanship  is  declining. 

Commercialism  and  the  strife  for  exist- 
ence are  overshadowing  civic  and  domestic 
virtues,  till  a  broad  and  practical  concep- 
tion of  the  object  of  life  and  the  destiny 
of  mankind  is  being  lost  sight  of.  Insen- 
sate pleasure,  false  pride  and  vanity,  that 
bring  in  the  end  discontent  and  unhappi- 
ness,  prevail  among  the  people;  and  a  di- 
minishing number  of  the  people  are  prac- 
ticing industry,  frugality,  homemaking, 
simple  life,  and  a  love  of  the  common  good, 
the  only  road  that  leads  to  true  contentment 
and  happinesss. 

This  ill  organized  condition  of  govern- 
ment and  society  is  resulting  in  a  disturbed 
condition  of  civilization,  creating  crimes, 
suicides,  insanity,  tenantry  and  divorces, 
and  separations  of  husbands  and  wives 
where  divorces  are  not  sought — all  destruc- 
tive of  the  basis  of  government  and  society. 

Out  of  these  conditions  and  mothered 
by  them,  are  the  internecine  war  in  Mexico 
and  the  deadly  and  murderous  struggle, 
wholesale  crime,  in  which  eleven  other  na- 
tions are  now  engaged,  involving,  it  is 


12  THE  REMEDY 

claimed,  one-half  the  population  of  the 
world.  The  same  causes  that  have  created 
these  conditions  in  twelve  nations  are  at 
work  elsewhere,  and  if  permitted  to  con- 
tinue will  bring  like  conditions  of  human 
slaughter,  from  time  to  time,  to  all  the  other 
nations  of  the  world. 

Evil,  and  the  results  of  evil,  thus  multi- 
plying, threaten  the  overthrow  of  our  civi- 
lization till  it  is  in  danger  of  being  returned 
to  savagery  and  numbered  with  the  prehis- 
toric civilizations  that  have  gone  before  us. 

These  conditions  have  brought  about 
widespread  discontent  and  restlessness,  af- 
fecting all  classes  of  people;  new  political 
parties  are  forming,  proposing  remedies; 
and  so  pronounced  has  become  the  discon- 
tent and  restlessness  the  women  are  asking 
for  the  right  of  suffrage,  to  vote,  to  try- 
to  remedy  that,  at  which,  they  claim  it  is 
conceded,  the  men  have  made  a  failure.  And 
a  babble  of  tongues  can  be  heard  over  the 
world. 

The  Fikst  Step  Towaed  a  Remedy 

It  is  a  fixed  principle  in  the  practice  of 
spiritual  religion  that  one  who  is  sinful, 
must  admit  and  become  conscious  of  his  or 
her  wickedness  before  that  one  can  be  saved. 
In  other  words,  one  must  know  his  faults 
before  he  can  be  made  over  anew.    To  be 


THE  REMEDY  13 

conscious  of  our  faults  is  the  first  step  to- 
ward getting  rid  of  them ;  for  how  can  one 
do  so  unless  he  knows  that  they  are  in  him? 
And  this  is  the  beginning,  the  start,  to  re- 
model our  civilization.  It  is  now  a  practice 
with  political  party  speakers  to  laud  the 
people,  to  praise  them,  extol  their  virtues, 
and  to  throw  all  the  blame  on  a  few — ^mean- 
ing that  there  is  no  fault  with  the  people. 
This  is  wrong.  Those  whom  the  people 
elect  fairly  represent  the  average  character 
of  the  people  who  elect  them. 

A  man  sitting  in  his  business  office,  re- 
cently, handed  to  his  lady  cashier,  twenty- 
five  pieces  of  fractional  silver  coins  and  had 
her  give  to  each  person  to  whom  she  made 
change,  in  the  payment  of  their  bills,  one 
of  the  silver  pieces  in  addition  to  the  change 
due  each.  She  did  so.  Eight  pocketed  the 
change  without  looking,  so  they  are  not  to 
be  considered.  Of  the  other  seventeen, 
eleven  knowingly  kept  money  that  did  not 
belong  to  them — nine  men  and  two  women. 
Six  handed  the  proper  amount  back — two 
women  and  four  men. 

We  all,  more  or  less,  have  our  faults  and 
the  beginning  of  a  remedy  is  for  each,  and 
as  a  people,  to  be  conscious  of  our  sins,  else 
we  cannot  be  made  over  anew.  To  deceive 
ourselves  is  a  mistake.  To  ascertain  our 
true  character  and  condition  is  the  part  of 


14  THE  REMEDY 

wisdom.  Egotism  and  self-deception  will 
blind  our  eyes  and  work  an  injury.  The 
first  step  in  a  remedy  is  to  see  ourselves 
as  we  are — to  see  existing  conditions  as  they 
are. 

DiFFEBENT  ViEWS  TaKEN  OF  It 

We  have  the  optimist  who  believes  that 
things  will  right  themselves  automatically, 
and  no  good  will  be  accomplished  by  a  dis- 
cussion of  the  subject.  He  is  usually  one 
who  is  in  good  circumstances  and  considers, 
selfishly,  his  own  environments.  When  sick, 
physically,  he  wants  a  remedy  and  applies 
it,  but  being  healthy,  industrially,  he  has 
no  use  for  a  remedy.  His  prototype  lived 
at  the  time  the  Dark  Age  was  casting  its 
black  shadow  over  the  then  civilized  world. 
The  broad-minded  man,  in  good  circum- 
stances himself,  looks  unselfishly  on  the  con- 
dition of  the  human  race  and  takes  an  in- 
terest in  the  problem  of  mankind.  We  have 
the  true  optimist  who  realizes  that  the  situ- 
ation is  serious  and  yet  has  hope  or  confi- 
dence in  an  efficient  remedy  being  worked 
out. 

The  pessimist  has  a  fair  or  an  exagger- 
ated idea  of  the  evils  existing  and  is  de- 
spondent as  to  any  favorable  outcome. 
Many  to  sustain  themselves  bodily,  or  being 
naturally  depraved,  join  with  the  wrong- 


THE  EEMEDY  15 

doers ;  while  others,  inspired  by  innate  hon- 
esty, will  go  on  to  the  end  doing  right,  but 
with  no  hope  of  a  favorable  reformation. 
Many  pessimists  would  be  optimists  if  they 
realized  there  was  hope  and  a  remedy ;  and 
that  they  could  help  work  out  the  remedy. 

The  state  of  mind  that  is  best  to  estab- 
lish, is  that  of  the  intelligent  optimist  who 
sees  clearly  the  true  situation,  does  not  close 
his  eyes  to  any  of  it,  realizes  that  it 
threatens  the  overthrow  of  civilization,  is 
looking  for  a  remedy,  a  practical  remedy, 
believes  that  there  must  be  one  and  when 
found  will  help  apply  it.  There  is  an  inertia 
and  indifference  constituting  another  class 
of  people  and  the  remedy  should  be  one  that 
interests  them  and  gets  their  attention. 

The  Force's  fob  Good 

Contending  against  evil  and  aiding  in 
relieving  the  suffering  it  is  producing,  are 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  noble  men  and 
women.  A  sprinkle  of  statesmen  in  the 
congresses  and  parliaments  of  nations  are 
doing  all  that  their  environments  will  per- 
mit of.  The  churches  are  trying  to  elimi- 
nate evil  and  are  appealing  for  peace  on 
earth  and  the  establishment  of  the  golden 
rule.  The  Young  Men's  and  the  Young 
Women's  Christian  Associations,  the  Chris- 
tion  Endeavors,  Sisters  of  Charity,  the  Red 


16  THE  EEMEDY 

Cross  Society,  the  Salvation  Army,  the 
Rockefeller  Educational  Foundation  and 
numerous  other  associations  are  at  work 
in  all  parts  of  the  world  combating  evil  and 
relieving  the  effects  of  evil.  The  Carnegie 
peace  movement,  international  conferences 
and  State  Ministers  are  seeking  treaties  to 
establish  peace  between  nations.  Economic 
and  reform  books,  magazines  and  newspa- 
per articles  and  editorials  are  helping.  But 
with  it  all,  the  great  army  of  reform,  peace 
and  justice,  is  retiring  before  the  army  of 
Evil. 

Believing  that  I  see  wherein  the  forces 
of  Good  need  help,  I  wish  to  assist  them  by 
making  plain  an  auxiliary  plan  and  creating 
an  organization  to  take  charge  of  its  work. 


CHAPTEE  II 

IF  a  majority,  a  dominating  majority, 
of  the  intelligent  people  are  in  accord 
in  desiring  anything  relating  to  the  pub- 
lic good,  it  will  be  conceded  that  it  will 
come  about  if  within  the  sphere  of  their  in- 
fluence. And  when  that  same  condition  of 
the  public  mind  exists  throughout  states 
and  nations,  it  will  be  established  generally, 
whether  it  be  laws  or  customs.  If  it  be  just 
and  right  and  is  generally  considered  to  be 
promoting  the  happiness  of  the  people  and 
advancing  civilization,  it  will  be  conceded 
that  the  sentiment  of  a  majority  of  the  intel- 
ligent people  will  become  the  sentiment  and 
wish  of  practically  all  the  people. 

Then  to  turn  the  people,  en  masse,  to- 
ward establishing  justice,  peace  on  earth 
and  good  will  of  all  toward  all,  is  to  get 
them  thinking  along  harmonious  lines  and 
all  wishing  and  desiring  that  it  be  accom- 
plished. And  this  is  a  matter  of  Education 
— a  system  of  education  that  will  bring  this 
about. 

Education  to  do  this,  must  interest  the 
people,  intensely  interest  them.  It  must 
show  that  it  leads  to  their  contentment, 
happiness  and  prosperity.  And  it  must  be 
practical.  It  must  bring  the  result  antici- 
17 


18  THE  REMEDY 

pated.  It  must  be  so  shaped  that  it  will 
soak  into  the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  peo- 
ple nntil  they  cannot  go  wrong  and  will 
move  of  one  accord  in  the  right  direction. 

Education  is  a  product  of  human  intelli- 
gence. It  is  a  science.  When  our  boats 
and  ships  were  propelled  by  hand  power 
and  by  sails  spread  to  the  winds,  it  was  de- 
sired that  there  should  be  a  greater  and 
more  convenient  power ;  and  human  intelli- 
gence gave  us  steam  and,  later,  electricity 
and  gasoline,  the  latter  making  possible  the 
navigation  of  the  air.  The  same,  in  princi- 
ple, may  be  said  of  other  discoveries  and 
inventions,  and  each  was  to  answer  a  de- 
mand. And  there  is  now  a  demand  for  im- 
provement in  the  methods  of  education  that 
will  eliminate  evil  and  evil  conditions  and 
establish  justice  and  right ;  and  if  the  pro- 
duct I  produce,  the  system  I  present,  re- 
sembles the  first  steamboat  that  Fulton 
built,  as  compared  with  the  present  ocean 
liners,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  human  ingenu- 
ity will  not  rest  until  improvements  have 
been  made  thereon  and  perfection  attained. 

The  shape  this  education  should  take 
will  antagonize  no  political  party  and  no 
church  or  creed.  It  is  not  necessary  to  do 
so  and  if  it  did,  it  would  not  accomplish  its 
purpose.  Its  effect  will  tend  to  neutralize 
prejudices  and  bring  every  one  into  har- 


THE  REMEDY  19 

mony  with  a  common  ambition  —  the  ad- 
vancement of  the  human  race. 

My  proposition,  is  a  system  of  education 
that  will  create  proper  character  in  the  in- 
dividual and  a  high  character  of  citizen- 
ship ;  that  will  get  at  and  develop  the  roots 
of  what  makes  character,  and  an  ever  in- 
creasing desire  for  the  advancement  of  the 
human  race ;  with  an  organization  in  charge 
that  will  see,  continuously,  to  its  applica- 
tion and  development. 

Reading,  writing,  spelling,  arithmetic, 
grammar  and  geography  are  taught  in  our 
schools.  They  are  not  difficult  to  teach; 
and  each  person,  more  or  less,  learns  them 
when  taught.  This  knowledge  becomes  a 
tool  in  the  hands  of  those  acquiring  it  to 
use  in  pursuing  special  studies  and  voca- 
tions; and  a  vast  difference  is  recognized 
between  the  opportunities  of  the  people 
with  this  education  they  have  acquired  and 
what  their  opportunities  would  be  if  they 
were  still  ignorant  as  to  reading,  writing, 
etc.  Character  may  be  taught  as  easily  as 
reading,  writing  or  any  of  the  simple 
branches;  with  as  much  or  more  interest 
prompting  its  study ;  and  a  knowledge  of  it 
can  become  world  wide  and  universal ;  and 
when  possessed  of  a  high  character  in  our 
citizenship,  perfecting  a  civilization  be- 
comes possible,  probable  and  practical. 


20  THE  REMEDY 

To  simply  teach  that  good  character  is 
necessary,  that  it  is  best  to  do  right  and 
using  all  the  general  platitudes  and  teach- 
ings now  practiced  on  this  subject,  will  do 
some  good,  but  it  is  more  or  less  neutralized 
by  evil  example  and  environments  and  by 
the  lure  of  temporary  happiness  and  gain 
held  out  by  evil  temptations — a  happiness 
and  gain,  unknown  to  those  tempted,  that 
is  temporary  only  and  in  the  end  brings 
to  them  discontent  and  unhappiness. 

Character  Teaching  a  Science 

My  plan  will  make  character  teaching  a 
science,  so  simplified  and  directed  that  its 
teaching  will  mold  the  human  mind,  more 
or  less  perfecting  character  in  the  individ- 
ual taught.  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  it 
will  bring  all  to  the  same  degree  of  perfec- 
tion. All  do  not  learn  to  read,  write,  etc., 
one  as  well  as  another,  but  all  taught  do 
learn,  though  some  better  than  others. 
Character  teaching,  however,  will  have  one 
advantage  over  other  teaching  —  it  will 
create  more  interest  and  its  lessons  will  be 
so  simple  that  all  may  imbibe  it  easily. 

To  reduce  it  to  a  science,  specific  things 
want  to  be  taught;  that  when  taught  pro- 
duce or  promote  the  desired  character  in 
the  one  taught.  The  definition  of  science  is 
' '  knowledge,  truth  ascertained. ' '  Applying 


THE  EEMEDY  21 

this  to  education  for  the  purpose  of  char- 
acter building,  if  education  is  so  shaped 
and  directed  as  to  produce  the  result  wished 
for,  it  will  be  knowledge,  truth  ascertained. 
It  will  be  education  in  character  building 
reduced  to  a  science — a  certainty ;  that,  as 
a  whole,  will  bring  us  to  a  perfected  civili- 
zation. 

Chakactee  Analyzed 

In  analyzing  character,  it  divides  itself 
into  three  subjects. 

First.  The  elements  in  character  that 
tend  to  produce  permanent  happiness  and 
contentment.  Or,  to  state  it  in  another 
way,  the  traits  in  character  which,  if  de- 
veloped to  the  exclusion  of  all  undesirable 
traits,  will  produce  perfect  character. 

Second.  The  elements  in  character  that 
produce  evil.  Or  to  put  it  in  another  way, 
the  traits  in  character  that  create  unhappi- 
ness,  discontent  and  injustice. 

Third.  The  elements  in  character  nec- 
essary for  establishing  and  perfecting  a 
civilization. 

And,  in  its  last  analysis,  I  divide  the 
three  subjects  into  ten.  And  as  we  are  not 
beginning  this  teaching  with  primitive  man, 
but  at  a  time  when  civilization  has  been 
attempted  and  is  now  in  turmoil  and  con- 
fusion, I  reverse  the  arrangement  used  in 


22  THE  REMEDY 

stating  the  three  subjects  and  name  the 
ten  subjects  in  the  following  order. 


1. 

The  Common  Good. 

2. 

Habit. 

3. 
4. 
5. 

Prejudice. 

Vanity. 

Selfishness,  Covetousness. 

6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 

A  Cheerful  Disposition. 

Honesty. 

Industry. 

Self-reliance. 

10. 

Home  Ownership. 

It  will  be  noticed  in  stating  the  ten  sub- 
jects, that  I  do  not  use  the  word  character, 
but  the  proper  teaching  of  these  subjects, 
I  think  you  will  agree  as  you  follow  me,  will 
produce  the  character  desired,  resulting  in 
a  citizenship  of  such  high  character  that  it 
will  solve  all  the  problems  of  mankind. 

I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  the  subjects 
stated  are  all  that  might  be  regarded  as  of 
value  in  getting  the  best  results,  but  they 
are  sufficient  and  will  raise  all  necessary 
suggestions  in  pointing  the  way  and  in  per- 
fecting civilization. 

As  reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  spell- 
ing, grammar  and  geography  are  the  ele- 
mentary studies  by  which  a  further  educa- 
tion is  obtained,  so  are  the  topics  I  have 
named  the  elementary  studies  by  which  the 


THE  EEMEDY  23 

whole  subject  of  character  may  be  grasped 
and  developed.  And  they  will  be  more  read- 
ily appreciated  and  easily  learned,  prop- 
erly taught,  than  reading,  writing,  etc. ;  and 
as  the  cereals,  fruits  and  flowers  grow  from 
seed,  so  these  will  be  the  seed  that  pro- 
duce the  product  we  wish. 

A  study  of  the  subject  of  character 
building  includes  the  effect  of  the  mother's 
mind  on  the  child  in  the  womb,  but  I  am 
leaving  that  to  be  dealt  with  separately, 
except  to  say  that  as  the  character  of  the 
mother  is  advanced  it  helps  mold  for  the 
better  the  character  of  the  child  while  yet 
unborn. 

Taking  the  ten  subjects  one  at  a  time, 
we  will  see  wherein  they  have  educational 
force  in  character  building. 

The  Common"  Good 

Men  acting  alone,  separately,  and  in  no 
way  in  concert,  would  not  produce  a  civili- 
zation. So,  what  they  do  by  acting  in  con- 
cert to  better  their  condition,  we  will  call 
promoting  the  Common  Good.  There  are 
many  things  they  can  do  for  their  collective 
benefit  that  is  proper  and  necessary  that 
they  should  do  to  promote  their  happiness 
and  comfort,  and  these  are  matters  of  the 
common  good  as  distinguished  from  those 
things  which  each  should  do  for  himself. 


24  THE  EEMEDY 

Making  roads  over  which  to  travel  is 
something  for  the  common  good,  and  nec- 
essary in  establishing  and  maintaining  a 
civilization. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  having  a  civi- 
lization of  any  practical  benefit  without 
having  money  to  answer  as  a  medium  of 
exchange.  Without  it  we  could  not  have 
railroads  and  other  means  of  transporta- 
tion, manufactures  to  make  tools  and  agri- 
cultural instruments,  or,  books,  or  news- 
papers and  magazines,  and  a  thousand 
other  things  necessary  in  making  a  civiliza- 
tion. In  this  way  we  sell  what  we  produce, 
or  our  service,  for  this  medium  of  exchange, 
and  with  it  buy  what  we  need — thus  enab- 
ling the  people  to  divide  up  into  many  em- 
ployments and  vocations,  all  doing  some- 
thing or  making  something  that  furnishes 
necessities,  comforts  and  conveniences  to 
all ;  which  would  not  be  practical  if  it  were 
not  for  money,  that  furnishes  a  medium  of 
exchange  by  which  this  is  accomplished. 

Stop  and  think  how  rapidly  the  civiliza- 
tion we  have  started  would  fall  to  pieces  if 
we  had  no  common  medium  of  exchange  — 
money.  Hence,  money  is  a  thing  that  con- 
cerns us  collectively  and  is  made  to  promote 
the  common  good.  The  making  of  money  is, 
therefore,  a  collective  function;  and  pre- 
serving it,  preventing  its  embarrassment. 


THE  REMEDY  25 

or  being  clogged  or  obstructed  or  diverted 
from  its  use  as  a  medium  of  exchange,  is 
also  a  collective  function;  for  there  is  no 
agency  more  vital  to  the  common  good  than 
money.  Hence,  it  is  one  of  the  things  neces- 
sary in  putting  together  and  maintaining  a 
civilization. 

A  school  system,  where  the  opportunity 
for  an  education  is  free  to  all,  is  because  it 
tends  to  promote  the  common  good ;  and  as 
it  aids  in  imparting  knowledge,  it  is  an 
agency  in  advancing  our  civilization. 

Promoting  the  general  health  by  appro- 
priating money  to  stamp  out  epidemics,  by 
requiring  sewers  in  towns  and  cities  to  carry 
oif  the  filth,  and  other  things  which  we  call 
sanitary  laws,  are  for  the  collective  benefit 
of  the  people  affected  and,  therefore,  to  pro- 
mote the  common  good. 

These  few  illustrations  will  show  what 
is  meant  by  the  term  common  good.  Care 
should  be  taken  not  to  do,  collectively,  those 
things  which  create  more  happiness  by  leav- 
ing them  to  the  indi\4dual  citizen  to  do  for 
himself. 

The  more  intelligently  we  promote  the 
common  good,  the  better  the  civilization  we 
will  have  to  live  in.  It  will,  properly  handled, 
create  an  equal  opportunity  for  all  and  pro- 
mote the  peace,  happiness  and  contentment 
of  the  people  and  each  can  follow  and  enjoy 


26  THE  REMEDY 

individual  business  and  pursuits.  Without 
civilization,  without  law,  order  or  govern- 
ment, we  would,  until  civilization  is  per- 
fected, be  at  the  mercy  of  the  vicious  and 
criminal  and  we  would  be  reduced  to  a  state 
of  barter  and  savagery.  And  civilization 
once  partly  built  up,  as  we  have  it  now,  when 
corrupted  by  covetousness  and  vain  and 
selfish  characters,  results  in  unequal  oppor- 
tunities, the  poverty  of  the  many,  a  strug- 
gle for  their  existence,  despondency,  crime, 
loss  of  character,  prejudices  and  war — the 
collective  slaughter  of  each  other.  Hence, 
the  necessity  of  its  being  built  on  a  firm  and 
correct  foundation  and  its  superstructure 
reared  with  unselfish  wisdom. 

So,  when  I  say  that  man  serves  himself 
best  by  promoting  the  common  good,  I  mean 
that  his  first  and  best  thoughts  should  be  to 
the  civilization  in  which  he  lives.  The  bet- 
ter the  civilization,  the  easier  it  will  be  for 
each  and  all  to  prosper  and  be  happy.  The 
worse  the  civilization,  the  harder  it  is  for 
each  and  all  to  be  both  prosperous  and 
happy.  One  who  plucks  or  injures  the  Com- 
mon Good  to  benefit  himself  or  herself,  is 
a  bad  person.  To  injure  another  person  is 
bad,  but  to  injure  the  Common  Good  is 
worse.  The  true  purpose  of  civilization 
is  the  advancement  of  the  human  race.  By 
wise  and  unselfish  action,  civilization  can 


THE  REMEDY  27 

be  perfected  so  as  to  bring  universal  happi- 
ness. The  first  step  in  character  building 
is  to  get  the  people  to  appreciate  the  object 
of  civilization  and  that  man  serves  himself 
best  by  intelligently  understanding  and  aid- 
ing in  promoting  it. 

Until  the  intelligent,  dominating  major- 
ity of  the  people  appreciate  this,  there  is  no 
remedy.   Hence,  it  is  a  matter  of  education. 

It  is  so  simple  and  self-evident  that  it 
can  be  easily  taught.  Care  should  be  taken 
in  its  teaching  not  to  mention  or  use,  by  way 
of  illustration,  any  question  that  is  now  at 
issue  with  political  parties,  or  that  would 
arouse  any  one's  prejudice;  for  it  is  not 
necessary  and  would  do  harm.  A  simple 
statement  of  the  elementary  truths  as  af- 
fecting our  collective  action  in  building  a 
civilization  is  sufficient — such  simple  state- 
ments as  I  have  made  herein,  on  which  all 
agree,  but  which  has  not  been  a  part  of  our 
education  and  which  is  not  now  understood 
or  appreciated.  The  human  mind,  if  broad 
and  unselfish,  having  grasped  correctly 
these  elementary  truths,  will  decide  cor- 
rectly public  questions  as  they  arise. 

We  cannot,  however,  expect  a  broad  and 
unselfish  view  of  civilization  to  be  taken 
by  a  majority  of  the  people  until  they  are 
educated  along  the  lines  of  the  other  nine 
subjects.   But  when  they  are,  this  first  sub- 


28  THE  EEMEDY 

ject  will  be  the  crowning  subject;  and  the 
possibilities  for  the  advancement  of  the 
human  race  will  be  revealed.  There  will 
then  be  no  two  opinions,  no  clashing  of  self- 
ish interests ;  and  there  will  be  unfolded  a 
subject  of  endless  interest,  inviting  the  aid 
of  the  plain  citizen,  the  educator  and  the 
scientist. 

When  one  absorbs  these  elementary- 
truths  relating  to  the  common  good,  it  has 
a  good  effect  on  one's  character — and  tends 
to  promoting  happiness  in  such  person.  Its 
tendency  is  to  make  one,  instinctively,  hon- 
est and  develops  the  soul. 

I  recently  invited  essays  from  boys  and 
girls  under  twenty  years  of  age  on  this  sub- 
ject, and  one  of  the  ninety-eight  essays  re- 
ceived, closes  with  these  words : 

The  man  who  is  best  served 
Best  serves  his  fellow  man; 
He  helps  his  grateful  people 
Advance  from  rear  to  van. 

His  sincere  face  presents 
Not  one  look  of  distress, 
And  the  joy  he  does  not  speak 
His  honest  looks  express.* 

Hence,  in  reducing  character  building  to 
a  science,  the  first  subject,  or  one  subject, 

♦This  essay  was  by  Albert  Raney,  age  18,  pupil  in 
High  School,  Jasper,  Newton  County,  Arkansas. 


THE  REMEDY  29 

is  the  common  good;  how  men  acting  collec- 
tively may  start  a  civilization  right  and 
keep  it  right ;  and  that  if  it  is  demoralized 
and  set  wrong  by  its  being  corrupted  by 
those  who  seek  to  pluck  it,  it  can  be  de- 
stroyed, bringing  suffering  and  misery  to 
the  whole  human  race. 

It  is  through  education  that  we  must 
teach  this  truth,  simplifying  it  so  the  school 
boys  and  girls  mil  understand  it.  To  do  so, 
will  plant  this  one  seed  in  their  minds  on  the 
threshold  of  life;  and  will  be  equally  as 
interesting  to  them,  if  not  more  so,  than  any 
of  their  other  school  studies,  and  as  easily 
grasped  and  understood. 

Upon  our  success  in  instilling  the  minds 
of  the  coming  generations,  with  a  love  and 
respect  for  the  common  good,  depends  the 
advancement  of  our  civilization.  It  is  not 
difficult  to  develop  in  the  young  the  desire  to 
see  a  better  civilization;  and  when  that  de- 
sire is  cultivated,  character  building  in  that 
boy  or  girl  has  begun,  and,  under  proper 
environments,  will  grow  stronger,  from 
year  to  year. 

The  father  and  mother  at  home  and  the 
teacher  in  the  schoolroom,  can  accomplish 
this  mind  molding,  this  character  making, 
in  the  young,  at  a  youthful  age.  And  the 
one  thus  benefited,  in  after  years,  will  re- 
member who  did  it  and  revere  the  memory. 


30  THE  EEMEDY 

of  mother,  father  or  teacher,  who  pointed 
the  way.  For,  one  who  wishes  to  see  a  bet- 
ter civilization,  possesses  character, —  ster- 
ling character. —  And  will  work  to  that  end ! 
A  desire  to  promote  a  better  civilization 
is  the  key  with  which  to  unlock  the  Temple 
in  which  is  stored  the  treasures  of  char- 
acter ! 


CHAPTER  ni 

WE  now  come  to  consider  the  otlier 
nine  subjects.  And  the  education 
relating  to  each  is  necessary  and 
each  adds  weight  and  strength  to  the  influ- 
ence of  all. 

Habit 

One  of  the  cardinal  principles  in  charac- 
ter building  is  to  appreciate  the  force  of 
habit.  How  the  understanding  of  it  helps 
to  mold  character!  The  sense  in  which  I 
use  the  word  habit  is  what  one  accustoms 
himself  or  herself  to  doing,  becomes  used 
to  or  familiar  with,  in  language  or  action. 
Habit  grows  on  one;  and  if  one  is  in  the 
habit  of  doing  right,  it  becomes  easier  and 
easier  to  do  right ;  and  if  one  is  in  the  habit 
of  doing  wrong,  it  becomes  easier  and  easier 
to  do  wrong ;  until  the  habit  is  set  either  for 
good  or  bad. 

This  is  but  a  simple  statement  of  a  well 
known  fact,  a  conceded  truth.  Its  use  in 
character  building  becomes  a  great  aid,  edu- 
cationally handled.  All  those  of  some  age 
have  thought  of  it  but  not  till  after  their 
habits  were  fixed.  The  young,  at  the  age  of 
fixing  their  habits,  do  not  hear  of  it.  It 
should  be  adroitly  and  attractively  pre- 
31 


32  THE  REMEDY 

sented  to  the  young  by  the  mother,  the 
teacher,  the  minister,  the  actor  and  others. 

Let  us  suppose  an  instance  of  a  mother 
with  her  little  boy  or  girl  on  her  lap.  She 
tells  it  about  quicksand,  how  when  one,  even 
a  strong  man,  gets  in  it,  he  sinks  lower  and 
lower  in  spite  of  his  efforts  to  get  out  of  it, 
till  his  head  disappears  under  the  surface 
of  the  sand;  riveting  the  attention  of  the 
child  on  the  story — then  telling  the  child, 
when  one  does  wrong  and  repeats  it  till  it 
becomes  a  habit,  it  acts  like  quicksand,  pull- 
ing the  person  down  till  ruined;  that  the 
way  to  keep  out  of  it  is  never  to  do  anything 
that  is  wrong,  etc.  We  can  imagine  such  a 
child  later  coming  to  its  mother  and  asking 
her  if  such  and  such  is  wrong.  It  remem- 
bers the  story  of  the  quicksand  and  learns 
what  moral  quicksand  is  and  how  to  keep 
out  of  it. 

The  influence  of  the  parents,  and  partic- 
ularly the  mother,  is  the  first  educational 
opportunity  to  mold  the  character  of  the 
child.  The  use  of  this  opportunity  depends 
on  the  influence  the  mother  has  with  the 
child ;  and  at  a  tender  age  that  question  is 
determined.  If  the  child  is  petted  and 
much  made  over  it,  it  is  quick  to  detect  its 
importance  in  the  family  and  its  influence. 
If  it  wants  something,  and  to  cry  gets  it 
what  it  wants,  and  the  mother  is  ready  to 


THE  EEMEDY  33 

cater  to  its  whims,  it  becomes  the  master 
and  the  mother  the  servant — from  that  day 
on,  the  same  relation  continuing,  the  mother 
is  losing  her  influence  for  good  over  the 
child  and  the  child  is  losing  its  respect  for 
the  mother.  The  child  becomes  the  master 
and  the  mother  the  servant. 

If,  when  this  disposition  develops  in  the 
child,  the  mother,  assuming  displeasure  at 
its  conduct,  were  to  leave  it  closed  up  in  a 
room  where  no  harm  could  come  to  it,  and 
go  away,  letting  it  cry  and  stay  alone  until 
it  feels  its  dependence,  its  utter  dependence, 
on  the  mother,  she  would,  by  this  and  other 
harmless  methods,  restore  and  establish  her 
proper  relation  to  the  child,  till  it,  feeling 
dependent  on  the  mother,  would  honor  and 
respect  her.  It  is  not  the  temporary  hap- 
piness of  the  child  to  be  considered  by  the 
mother,  but  its  future  character  and  per- 
manent happiness. 

For  a  mother  to  chastise  a  child  and 
then,  feeling  sorry  for  it,  follows  up  its 
correction  by  petting  and  humoring  it,  is 
worse  than  if  she  had  done  nothing.  By 
beginning  early  enough  in  properly  train- 
ing a  child,  it  will  never  be  necessary  to 
chastise  it.  The  proper  training  of  a  child 
begins  by  teaching  it  its  dependence  on  its 
mother  and  out  of  that  will  grow  obedience 
and  respect;  and  kindly  and  affectionate 


34  THE  EEMEDY 

companionship  will  be  established,  with  the 
mother  the  dominating  influence  with  the 
child;  and  her  example  and  teaching  will 
have  wonderful  control  of  it.  In  elimina- 
ting evil  from  the  world,  each  mother  may 
be  a  teacher,  whether  she  was  properly- 
taught  herself  or  not,  and  when  one  begins 
teaching,  one  learns  much  for  oneself. 

And  one  of  the  things  that  the  mother 
wants  to  teach  the  child  is  the  effect  and 
force  of  habit.  She  should  remember  the 
value  of  its  teaching.  If  one  is  in  the  habit 
of  being  neat  and  clean,  it  will  become  sec- 
ond nature  to  be  neat  and  clean !  If  one  is 
in  the  habit  of  being  polite,  it  will  become 
natural  to  be  polite !  If  one  is  in  the  habit 
of  telling  the  truth,  it  becomes  natural  to 
tell  the  truth  I  If  one  is  in  the  habit  of  tell- 
ing falsehoods,  the  habit  will  grow,  till  a  lie 
will  often  be  told  where  the  truth  would 
answer  the  purpose  better!  The  boy  who 
gets  in  the  habit  of  tipping  his  hat  or  cap 
to  the  girls  or  to  the  ladies  as  he  passes 
them,  will  soon  do  so  instinctively  and  po- 
litely, to  his  credit  and  popularity!  And 
good  habits  lead  to  happiness  and  success 
in  life! 

Prejudice 

One  cannot  be  happy  and  contented  who 
cultivates  prejudice.    It  injures  the  person 


THE  EEMEDY  35 

who  nurses  it  in  his  breast  more  than  it 
does  the  person  against  whom  it  is  di- 
rected. It  distempers  one's  mind  and 
causes  loss  of  sleep  and  appetite. 

To  have  peace  of  mind  and  contentment 
one  should  free  oneself  from  prejudice. 
To  cultivate  it  arouses  an  ugly  disposition. 
If  one  acts  meanly  towards  you,  look  on  him 
or  her  as  a  scientist  would  look  at  a  bug 
through  a  microscope  —  as  one  to  be  pitied, 
one  who  is  unfortunate,  one  who  is  losing 
the  opportunity  for  contentment  and  hap- 
piness. Let  the  law  take  hold  of  him,  if 
necessary  that  he  may  do  no  harm,  but  sup- 
press prejudice.  If  he  threatens  bodily 
harm  and  there  is  not  time  or  opportunity 
for  the  law  to  protect  you,  if  trying  to  let 
him  alone  and  words  addressed  to  his  rea- 
son will  not  answer,  then  defend  yourself 
against  him  as  you  would  against  an  en- 
raged animal.  He  is  the  unfortunate  one 
of  the  two.  Form  an  intelligent  opinion  of 
others  without  prejudice  or  hatred  influ- 
encing your  opinion. 

Prejudice  often  leads  to  crime,  to  neigh- 
borhood quarrels  and  strife.  It  leads  to 
race  hatred  and  wars  between  nations  and 
the  unhappiness  and  discontent  of  millions 
of  people. 

A  candidate  for  political  oflBce  often  ex- 
cites the  prejudice  of  the  people  by  abuse  of 


36  THE  REMEDY 

his  opponent  or  opponents,  to  secure  the 
oflfice  sought  through  the  influence  of  preju- 
dice. When  he  does  so,  he  is  aiding  in  low- 
ering the  character  of  those  who  come  un- 
der his  influence.  His  right  to  the  office 
sought  should  be  judged  by  his  fitness  for  it 
and  his  use  of  prejudice  should  be  an  argu- 
ment against  him. 

If  there  be  an  Evil  Spirit  at  work  in  this 
world  against  a  Good  Spirit,  prejudice  is 
one  of  the  principal  weapons  the  Evil  Spirit 
uses  to  achieve  its  object  —  the  misery  and 
discontent  of  the  human  race.  Through 
education,  properly  handled,  prejudice  can 
be  eliminated  from  the  human  breast. 

Vanity 

Vanity  is  to  be  foolishly  proud  of  one- 
self. 

It  manifests  itself  in  one's  manners, 
bearing,  dress  or  conversation.  One  should 
have  self-respect,  be  clean,  dress  well,  be 
self -poised  and  self-reliant  but  not  vain. 

One  of  healthy  mind  will  dress  comfort- 
ably and  have  clothing  that  fits  well  and  be- 
comingly. The  vain  person  —  one  light  of 
mind  —  will  wear  useless  ornaments  and 
frequently  dress  uncomfortably  in  a  self- 
conceited  display. 

Self-conceit,  vanity,  tends  to  take  the 


THE  REMEDY  37 

mind  out  of  the  channel  of  healthy  thought 
and  useful  occupation, 

A  vain  person  is  weak  morally  and 
thereby  is  more  easily  tempted  to  commit 
crime. 

One  may  be  led  by  vanity  to  want  to  be 
president  or  a  congressman  or  to  fill  some 
other  office,  but  such  person  does  not  want 
it  that  he  may  assist  in  promoting  the  com- 
mon good,  but  wants  it  from  motives  of  self- 
conceit  ;  and  will  sometimes  consent  to  oth- 
ers selfishly  robbing  the  people  if  he  thinks 
doing  so  will  aid  him  in  getting  or  holding 
the  office. 

Vanity  manifests  itself  in  false  pride, 
often  causing  one  to  do  a  foolish  or  unwise 
act.  Where  a  number  of  people  are  to- 
gether and  a  dispute  arises  wherein  one  ad- 
dresses to  another  opprobrious  words,  the 
other  often  resents  it  by  physical  blows, 
prompted  by  false  pride,  believing  that  if 
he  does  not,  he  will  be  regarded  as  a  coward. 
In  this  way,  false  pride  often  leads  to  crime, 
imprisonment  and  much  unhappiness  and 
suffering. 

It  also  applies  to  nations  and  is  some- 
times the  cause  of  two  or  more  nations  go- 
ing to  war,  though  millions  are  made  to  suf- 
fer thereby.  At  times  on  a  trivial  happen- 
ing where  it  is  supposed  that  an  officer  of 
one  nation  intended  insult  to  another  na- 


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38  THE  REMEDY 

tion,  the  nation  feeling  aggrieved  has  de- 
manded that  the  offending  nation  shall  sa- 
lute the  flag  of  the  nation  feeling  offended ; 
and  on  its  refusal  to  do  so,  though  claiming 
no  insult  was  intended,  war  has  been  de- 
clared—  prompted  by  vanity,  false  pride, 
in  one  of  its  most  inexcusable  and  wicked 
forms.  Whatever  manifests  itself  in  indi- 
vidual character  may  manifest  itself  in  na- 
tional character.  As  vain  ambition  may 
affect  wickedly  individual  characters,  so  it 
may  move  a  people  or  rulers  of  a  nation  to 
commit  great  wrongs. 

One  should  have  conscious  pride  of  in- 
tegrity and  character,  and,  modest,  self- 
reliant  respect  for  self,  tending  to  giving 
correct  self -measurement  of  self;  and  thus 
molded  he  or  she  will  be  free  of  vanity  and 
false  pride  —  giving  him  or  her  strength  of 
purpose  and  sterling  character  that  will  re- 
flect the  finer  manhood  or  refined  woman- 
hood in  the  person  thus  possessed. 

There  are  times  in  our  present  civiliza- 
tion, as  it  now  judges  the  acts  of  men  by 
false  standards,  when  it  requires  more 
moral  courage  in  one  to  stay  out  of  a  phys- 
ical or  national  encounter  than  it  would  re- 
quire to  drift  with  the  expected,  unjust 
promptings  of  false  pride  and  vanity. 

Vanity  can  be  educated  out  of  the  human 
character  with  teaching  universally  directed 


THE  REMEDY  39 

to  that  end,  at  home,  in  the  schools  and 
through  literature  and  other  agencies.  As 
it  is  now,  little  or  no  attention  in  education 
is  paid  to  it,  to  prejudice  and  to  covetous- 
ness;  and  they  are  left  to  grow  as  rank 
weeds  in  a  neglected  field.  And  as  educa- 
tion eliminates  these  agencies  of  Evil,  im- 
proved character  by  heredity,  as  generation 
follows  generation,  ought  to  see  them  finally 
pass  into  oblivion. 

Selfishness 

The  word  selfishness  is  here  used  in  the 
sense  of  covetousness.  Selfishness  is  a  love 
of  self  with  a  desire  to  have,  to  possess,  re- 
gardless of  the  rights  of  others.  Jealousy 
is  a  child  of  covetousness.  Avarice  is  in- 
tense selfishness,  greediness. 

Selfishness  is  the  worst  defect  in  human 
character  and  blocks  the  road  to  civilization 
and  the  happiness  and  contentment  of  the 
people,  probably,  more  than  any  other  evil 
trait  in  human  character. 

Vanity  is  a  false  pride,  to  have  a  foolish 
love  for  oneself.  Selfishness  is  a  greedy 
love  for  oneself  or  for  one's  offspring. 

It  is  a  selfish  person  who  nurses  the  be- 
lief that  the  world  owes  him  or  her  a  living. 
Such  persons,  when  necessary,  will  impose 
their  care  and  maintenance  on  others,  if 
permitted  to  do  so.    They  know  not  the 


40  THE  EEMEDY 

health  and  happiness  that  comes  with  indus- 
try and  self-respect  —  that  develops  man- 
hood and  womanhood.  Their  disposition  is 
to  prey  on  others;  to  prey  on  the  govern- 
ment ;  and  to  try  to  get  that  which  of  right 
they  have  not  earned  and  which  does  not 
belong  to  them. 

Selfishness  is  partly  the  cause  of  per- 
sonal quarrels,  neighborhood  strife  and 
wars.  If  one  were  asked  the  cause  of  the 
war  in  Mexico,  where  the  Mexican  people 
are  fighting  each  other,  till  death,  waste, 
rapine  and  misery  have  filled  that  land,  and 
the  answer  were  confined  to  one  word,  it 
would  be  covetousness  —  the  selfish  owner- 
ship of  all  the  land  by  a  few  people.  If 
asked  the  cause  of  the  present  war  in  Eu- 
rope and  Asia,  the  truthful  answer  would 
be  vanity,  vain  ambition,  race  prejudice  and 
covetousness. 

To  let  the  mind  loose  along  logical  lines 
of  the  imagination,  one  can  see  in  the  sky 
overlooking  the  dark  pall  of  war  in  the 
Eastern  Hemisphere,  his  Satanic  Majesty 
—  the  Evil  Spirit,  with  face  wreathed  in 
smiles,  and  hear  him,  true  to  his  character, 
thus  expressing  himself: 

''How  well  it  works!  My  purpose,  the 
misery,  the  suffering,  the  unhappiness,  the 
discontent  of  the  human  race.  This  is  hap- 
piness to  me  as  I  look  down  upon  this  scene. 


THE  EEMEDY  41 

And  how  admirably  I  have  planned  to  bring 
it  about.  Using  the  vain  ambition  of  weak- 
lings, who  would  strut  the  earth  in  self- 
importance;  hatred  for  each  other  nursed 
through  decades ;  and  a  covetous  desire  for 
more  territory  and  more  power;  the  work 
of  my  handmaids,  Vanity,  Prejudice  and 
Covetousness.  See  the  Belgians,  the  old 
men,  the  women  and  children  fleeing  from 
Antwerp,  their  homes  destroyed  and  their 
country  laid  waste,  hunger  and  distress 
written  on  their  faces ;  see  the  cannon  shells 
bursting  in  France,  in  Poland,  in  Hungary, 
in  Turkey  and  in  Egypt ;  millions  in  deadly 
hatred  as  they  fire  bullets  into  each  other 
and  make  gaping  wounds  with  bayonets. 
See  the  bombs  falling  from  the  airships, 
killing  and  wounding  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren ;  the  explosion  under  yonder  battleship 
and  two  thousand  lives  snuffed  out,  their 
bodies  going  to  the  bottom  of  the  sea ;  the 
hospitals  and  homes  filled  with  the  wounded. 
And  these  things  I  have  brought  about  — 
and  this  is  my  harvest !  No,  only  partially 
so !  From  the  gray  ashes  of  this  war  there 
will  arise  sorrow  and  disease  and  pesti- 
lence! The  armies  are  composed  of  the 
most  capable  and  physically  well  developed 
young  men ;  the  crippled  and  defective  are 
left  at  home  and  will  become  the  fathers  of 
the  future  children,  who  will  inherit  the 


42  THE  EEMEDY 

weaknesses  of  their  fathers!  No!  The 
harvest  is  yet  to  come! — as  I  pile  billions 
of  debt  upon  them  and  leave  them  a  weak 
and  decrepit  people  who  will  the  more  easily 
cultivate  vain  and  foolish  things  and  hatred 
for  each  other !  Thus  will  I  establish  my 
kingdom  over  the  earth ! ' ' 

Let  us  ask  ourselves  the  question, 
Whence  comes  Evil?  And  is  not  the  an- 
swer, from  prejudice,  vanity  and  covetous- 
ness  ?  And  when  we  have  eliminated  these 
from  human  character,  have  we  not  ban- 
ished Evil  from  the  world  ?  Education,  di- 
rected right,  will  do  it!  Education,  skill- 
fully handled,  is  the  most  powerful  influ- 
ence in  the  world.  Put  education  in  proper 
training  for  the  conflict  and  it  will  kill  the 
three  of  them. 

A  Cheerful  Disposition 

Thus  far  we  have  dealt  with  the  three 
negative  influences  that  have  an  evil  or  de- 
structive influence  on  human  character  — 
vanity,  prejudice  and  selfishness.  We  are 
now  to  consider  those  subjects  which  when 
educationally  taught  and  cultivated  will 
build  character. 

Cultivating  a  cheerful  disposition  is  one 
of  them ;  and  when  cultivated  and  practiced, 
it  will  become  fixed  by  habit.  It  aids  in 
making  one  happy  and  extends  happiness  to 


THE  EEMEDY  43 

others;  it  harmonizes  people  and  tends  to 
contentment.  A  churlish  disposition  culti- 
vates prejudice  and  a  happy  disposition 
aids  in  destroying  prejudice.  Its  impor- 
tance should  be  taught  to  the  young,  and 
borne  in  mind  all  through  life.  It  leads  to 
politeness,  good  manners,  being  respectful 
and  considerate  and  is  the  sunshine  of  hu- 
man character. 

Honesty 

It  has  been  said  that  to  be  honest  is  the 
best  policy.  What  is  meant  is  that  one  will 
succeed  best  by  being  honest.  It  estab- 
lishes confidence  and  leads  to  one  being 
trusted. 

But  there  are  other  and  weightier  rea- 
sons why  one  should  be  honest.  The  great- 
est asset  in  life  is  contentment  and  happi- 
ness; and  to  be  contented  and  happy  it  is 
necessary  that  one  should  be  honest.  Be- 
ing honorable  and  honest  tends  to  promote 
happiness  and  contentment.  A  dishonest 
man  is  looking  over  his  shoulder  to  see  what 
is  going  to  hit  him.  When  one  is  honest  it 
aids  in  producing  peace  of  mind  and  sound 
sleep,  which  also  conduces  to  good  health. 
And  one  should  be  honest  with  oneself.  To 
try  to  deceive  oneself  is  dishonest. 


44  THE  EEMEDY 

Industry 

Industry  is  indispensable  to  happiness. 
One  wlio  is  industrious  may  be  happy  and 
contented.  An  idle  person  cannot  be  happy 
and  contented.  The  industrious  person 
has  occupation  of  mind  which,  usefully  em- 
ployed, tends  to  contentment.  Useful  in- 
dustry promotes  a  better  appetite,  sound 
sleep,  contentment  and  health. 

It  has  been  said  that  an  idle  mind  is  the 
Devil's  workshop.  The  truth  of  this  will 
be  confirmed  by  all  who  reflect.  If  one  is 
engaged  in  useful  occupation,  mentally  or 
physically,  the  mind  is  occupied  with  that 
which  is  good  for  it,  making  it  peaceful, 
healthier  and  stronger;  but  if  not  so  occu- 
pied, a  mental  vacuum  is  created  which  is 
too  often  filled  by  evil  temptations.  The 
idle  person  gets  in  trouble  and  makes  trou- 
ble for  others;  and  it  leads  to  discontent, 
evil  thoughts  and  crime.  The  young  should 
understand  this  early  in  life,  that  they  may 
shape  their  course  for  success,  happiness 
and  contentment. 

The  child  is  naturally  industrious  and 
the  mother  should  direct  its  attention,  in 
play,  to  those  things  that  are  not  harmful, 
and  to  mental  and  physical  industry  that 
will  be  healthful  and  helpful ;  to  books  that 
will  be  to  them  interesting  reading,  mental 
industry ;  to  assisting  the  mother  or  father 


THE  REMEDY  45 

—  keeping  them  busy  —  their  minds  em- 
ployed, at  play  or  at  useful  mental  or  phys- 
ical occupation.  To  permit  them  to  be  idle 
and  cultivate  idleness  is  a  crime  in  the  par- 
ents as  it  leads  to  moral  defects  in  the  chil- 
dren and  maybe  to  their  ruin. 

Self-Reliance 

To  learn  to  be  self-reliant  is  important 
in  shaping  one's  character.  The  boy  and 
girl  at  school  should  begin  to  learn  this  and 
after  a  fair  start  should  each  rely  on  him- 
self or  herself  to  learn  the  school  lessons. 
That  which  we  dig  out  ourselves  we  remem- 
ber best  and  it  develops  best  the  mind. 

Self-reliance  makes  one  stronger  men- 
tally, morally  and  physically.  It  makes  one 
more  erect,  more  efficient  and  more  capable. 
It  develops  the  initiative  in  character.  One 
who  is  self-reliant  will,  unconsciously,  stand 
more  erect  and  have  a  better  type  of  phys- 
ical form  and  better  expression  reflected  in 
the  face. 

The  honest,  industrious  and  self-reliant 
man  is  not  an  alms  taker.  He  is  not  hold- 
ing out  his  hand  for  you  to  give  him  some- 
thing. He  is  not  seeking  something  for 
nothing.  He  is  not  trying  to  pluck  the  gov- 
ernment or  his  neighbor.  Self-reliance, 
coupled  with  honesty  and  industry,  leads  to 
success,  happiness  and  contentment;  and 


46  THE  EEMEDY 

such  a  person  is  not  apt  to  imbibe  preju- 
dice, vanity  and  seljfishness;  his  mind  will 
be  broad  and  he  will  see  and  note  their  evil 
effects. 

Self-reliance  will  give  one  a  better  con- 
trol of  oneself  when  tempted  to  do  wrong. 
One  can  say  No  when  it  is  best  to  say  No ! 
Knowing  the  effect  of  a  bad  habit,  his  char- 
acter will  instinctively  say  No !  and  he  will 
not  be  so  easily  led  into  temptation  to  do 
wrong!  And  when  doing  right,  will  do  it 
the  more  vigorously ! 

Self-reliance  is  a  very  important  factor 
to  cultivate  in  character  building ;  and  it  can 
be  taught  to  the  child  at  school,  and  the  seed 
there  planted  will  grow,  more  or  less, 
through  life. 

Home  Ownership 

There  is  a  desire  in  each  person  to  want 
a  home  and  this  trait  in  character  should  be 
encouraged,  as  it  has  a  direct  influence  on 
character  building. 

If  one 's  character  has  been  formed  by  an 
appreciation  of  the  nine  former  subjects,  it 
is  needless  to  say  that  such  person  is  a  good 
citizen  and  appreciates  the  value  of  home 
ownership. 

It  is  a  subject  that  should  have  a  niche 
in  a  Shaft  raised  to  character  building ;  and 
should  be  educationally  impressed. 


THE  REMEDY  47 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  a  capable  and 
prosperous  citizenship  and  advancing  civ- 
ilization that  is  not  founded  on  prosperous 
and  contented  homes.  In  one  and  all  the 
love  of  home,  or  desire  for  a  home,  is  im- 
planted. It  is  around  the  hearthstone,  on 
the  home  porch,  in  the  family  sitting  room 
and  home  environments  that  true  happiness 
and  contentment  may  be  sought.  Its  asso- 
ciations are  best  to  develop  character,  lofty 
aspirations  and  noble  sentiments.  With- 
out it,  one  is  like  a  ship  without  an  anchor. 
And  to  be  a  home  with  the  best  influence,  it 
should  belong  to  those  who  occupy  it. 

The  home  owner  is  interested,  builds  for 
the  future  and  improves  and  beautifies ;  the 
wife  and  children  plant  flowers  and  trees 
and  take  an  interest  in  their  development. 
It  aids  in  broadening  the  minds  of  the  sons 
and  daughters  and  in  cultivating  in  them 
initiative  and  constructive  character. 

The  tenant  and  his  family  are  not  thus 
affected.  Their  interest  in  it  is  temporary. 
They  let  the  property  run  down.  They  do 
not  improve  or  beautify,  grow  sloven  and 
indifferent  and  are  not  influenced  to  be  ini- 
tiative or  constructive,  thus  weakening  what 
might  have  been  possible  in  the  character  of 
their  children. 

A  nation  of  home  owners  is  a  strong  na- 
tion ;  and  a  nation  of  tenants  is  a  weak  na- 


48  THE  REMEDY 

tion.  The  rise  or  decline  of  civilization 
may  be  marked  by  the  increase  or  decrease 
of  home  owners.  The  steady  and  continu- 
ous increase  in  the  number  of  home  owners 
means  an  advancing  civilization!  A  de- 
crease in  home  owners  and  a  steady  and 
continuous  increase  in  the  number  of  ten- 
ants, means  a  declining  civilization !  With 
the  country  populated  with  home  owners,  it 
means  a  sturdy,  reliable  citizenship !  And 
as  our  first  and  best  thoughts  should  be  for 
the  making  of  a  grand  civilization,  we  are 
interested  in  reducing  the  number  of  ten- 
ants and  increasing  the  number  of  home 
owners !  And  this  is  a  subject  for  teaching 
in  character  building. 


CHAPTER  IV 

The  Value  of  It 

IN  reducing  education  teaching  character 
building  to  a  science,  we  are  using  ten 
subjects :  The  Common  Good,  wherein 
we  act  collectively ;  Habit ;  Prejudice ;  Van- 
ity; Selfishness;  a  Cheerful  Disposition; 
Honesty;  Industry;  Self-Reliance ;  and 
Home    Ownership. 

In  producing  a  chemical  for  a  beneficial 
purpose,  certain  elements  are  combined  and 
the  desired  result  is  obtained.  In  making 
bread,  certain  ingredients  are  mixed  and 
their  mutual  action  on  each  other  accom- 
plishes the  result.  It  is  knowledge  —  truth 
ascertained. 

A  system  of  refining  oil  produces  gaso- 
line, and  a  machine  built  on  scientific  prin- 
ciples causes  explosions  of  the  gasoline,  cre- 
ating power,  that  is  now  running  millions  of 
automobiles  and  other  machinery.  This  is 
knowledge  —  truth  ascertained. 

With  a  like  accuracy,  as  in  the  making  of 
a  chemical,  the  bread  and  the  gasoline  pow- 
er, a  proper  system  for  training  the  human 
mind  will  produce  the  character  desired. 
The  ten  ingredients  named,  used  in  the  men- 
tal composition,  create  the  desired  effect. 
49 


50  THE  EEMEDY 

The  same  ingredients  commonly  used  in 
making  bread  will  not  each  time  produce 
the  best  bread,  but  each  time  it  will  make 
bread  that  nourishes  life.  And  in  the  train- 
ing of  the  human  mind,  using  the  ten  ingre- 
dients named,  we  will  not  each  time  get  the 
best  result,  but  each  time  it  will  be  making 
character  that  nourishes  civilization. 

Teaching  the  elementary  subjects  taught 
in  our  schools,  six  subjects,  is  the  science  of 
letters.  Teaching  the  ten  subjects  named, 
is  the  science  of  character  building;  and 
may  be  done  in  one-tenth  the  time  consumed 
in  teaching  the  six  subjects.  And  the  ten 
specific  subjects  taught  will,  as  a  whole,  pro- 
duce the  desired  result.  Education  in  a 
general,  haphazard  way  will  not  give  the  re- 
sult desired.  It  generalizes  too  much  and 
does  not  put  in  it  the  substance  necessary. 

As  steel  is  made  by  the  blending  of  sev- 
eral minerals  till,  more  or  less,  it  is  a  firm, 
unyielding  substance,  so  the  human  mind 
when  it  absorbs  the  teaching  of  these  ten 
subjects,  will  will  to  be,  to  do  as  the  con- 
clusions reached  from  these  ten  subjects 
prompt,  and  is  more  or  less  an  unyielding 
character  of  the  substance  of  which  it  is 
made. 

And  what  is  such  a  character  made  of? 
A  desire  to  promote  civilization.  Under- 
stands the  force  of  habit ;  shrinks  from  the 


THE  EEMEDY  51 

danger  of  a  bad  habit  in  self-defense,  as  one 
would  from  a  pitfall.  Realizes  the  poison 
for  evil  or  injury  to  oneself  and  to  civiliza- 
tion there  is  in  prejudice,  vanity  and  covet- 
ousness.  Cultivates  a  cheerful  disposition 
which  grows  stronger  and  is  fixed  upon  him 
or  her  by  habit.  Is  honest,  industrious  and 
self-reliant,  also  fixed  stronger  day  by  day, 
by  habit ;  and  will  be  a  home  owner  if  so  sit- 
uated to  use  it.  Such  a  person  will  be  a 
good  citizen,  a  desirable  citizen.  Such 
teaching,  systematized,  will  be  organization 
in  an  onward  movement  for  the  perfection 
of  civilization.  The  result  is  obtained  be- 
cause specific  subjects  are  taught  which 
make  character. 

It  Will  Arouse  Interest 

Such  teaching  will  arouse  interest. 
When  interest  is  attained,  education  is  easy 
and  learning  rapid.  Interest  aroused  is  a 
key  that  unlocks  the  mind ;  if  the  genius  of 
developing  it  is  possessed  by  a  teacher,  in 
any  school,  the  pupils  learn  rapidly. 
Teaching  character  building  is  of  itself  an 
interesting  subject  in  which  the  pupils  can 
be  more  easily  interested  than  in  the  school 
of  letters. 

In  the  teaching  of  each  subject,  the 
teaching  carries  with  it  a  reason  that  ap- 
peals to  the  mind,  something  that  is  tangi- 


52  THE  REMEDY 

ble,  that  one  can  take  hold  of,  can  grasp  — 
mentally ;  that  is  logical  and  unanswerable. 
It  promises  and  justifies  the  expectation  of 
a  reward,  happiness,  contentment,  a  pros- 
perous condition,  the  advancement  of  civ- 
ilization ;  with  a  reliable,  well-founded  hope, 
ultimately,  of  universal  peace  and  happi- 
ness. With  such  an  incentive,  it  can  be- 
come a  universally  popular  study. 

And  what  may  we  reasonably  expect? 

It  is  said  that  one  has  a  conscience,  more 
or  l€ss  developed  in  all,  and  that  it  is  innate 
in  one  to  wish  to  do  good,  though  with  char- 
acter much  corrupted;  and  this  is  true. 
Again,  experience  teaches  that  in  all  the  na- 
tions of  the  world,  people  in  great  numbers 
have  followed  some  form  of  religion;  it  is 
because  it  is  inborn  in  mankind  to  wish  to 
search  for  what  is  good.  For  the  same  rea- 
son, will  not  this  cause,  these  teachings,  suc- 
cessfully appeal  to  millions  of  people  ? 

In  reducing  character  building  to  a  sci- 
ence, we  put  forward  as  one  of  its  cardinal 
principles  the  Common  Good  —  wherein  we 
act,  collectively,  to  produce  a  civilization; 
with  a  growing  incentive  to  make  it  a  good 
civilization,  a  better  civilization,  a  perfect 
civilization  —  to  emancipate  mankind  from 
Evil,  and  when  one  is  assisting  in  this  he  is 
doing  good.  He  is  using  the  intelligence 
the  Creator  gave  him  to  work  out  his  salva- 


THE  EEMEDY  53 

tion  and  tlie  salvation  of  the  human  race. 
It  is  a  practical  remedy  that  all  can,  more 
or  less,  grasp,  and  all  can  mentally  kneel  at 
its  shrine  and  rise  with  a  higher  and  nobler 
spirit. 

Will  Aid  Religious  Obdees 

It  will  be  welcomed  by  those  teaching 
spiritual  religion  as  materially  aiding  them. 
For  if  one  is  aiding  to  construct  a  happy 
temporary  kingdom  for  mankind  on  this 
earth  he  is  more  fitted  to  enter  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven.  If  one  does  not  possess  the 
character  that  appreciates  a  perfected  civ- 
ilization here,  how  can  he,  when  he  lays 
down  to  die,  expect  to  claim  his  fitness  for 
a  perfected  Kingdom  in  the  hereafter  I  Is 
it  not  a  practical  religion  on  which  all  can 
agree  ?  And  a  preparatory  school  making 
possible  the  success  of  spiritual  religion? 
Are  not  all  organizations  promoting  spir- 
itual religion  now  hampered  and  embar- 
rassed by  the  Evil  in  human  character? 
And  will  they  not  welcome  a  practical  move- 
ment that  will  aid  them  in  eliminating  Evil 
from  human  character? 

It  will  create  good  citizenship.  Neigh- 
bors will  respect  each  other  more  and  each 
regard  the  other  as  having  an  equal  right  in 
the  pursuit  of  life,  health  and  happiness. 

Each  will  have  a  concern  for  the  new- 


54  THE  EEMEDY 

born,  of  their  own  and  those  of  others,  that 
the  material  to  replenish  the  human  race  be 
advancing  in  moral,  mental  and  physical 
character. 

The  young  man  tempted  by  voluptuous 
passion  who  has  learned  the  ten  lessons,  will 
hesitate  before  tempting  the  young  woman 
to  do  that  which  will  destroy  her  peace  of 
mind,  happiuess  and  contentment.  His 
tendency  will  be  to  lift  his  hat  to  her  and 
with  courteous  gallantry  encourage  her  that 
she  may  become  the  loyal  mf  e  of  someone 
and  the  mother  of  children  who  will  add  lus- 
ter to  a  rising  civilization.  He  will  not  seek 
to  pull  down,  but  will  seek  to  lift  up. 

Happy  Marriages 

Both  the  men  and  women,  seeking  mates 
in  -wedlock,  will  be  instinctively  guided  by 
what  is  required  in  character  to  win  admira- 
tion and  produce  happiuess ;  and  love  and 
marriage  will  not  be  the  offspring  of  frivol- 
ity, vanity,  expediency  and  covetousness. 
Love  will  be  of  a  character  that  binds  them 
together  in  comradeship,  union  and  har- 
mony. 

Husbands  and  wives  will  be  industrious ; 
the  husband  a  good  provider  and  the  wife  a 
good  housekeeper,  both  indispensable  to 
married  happiness.  Idleness,  ostentation 
and  false  display  will  not  tempt  them  be- 


THE  REMEDY  55 

cause  they  will  know  it  leads  to  unhappiness 
and  discontent.  Their  home  will  be  one  of 
simple  life,  of  love  and  comfort,  and  one  of 
the  millions  of  miits  forming  for  the  per- 
manent establishment  of  a  civilization. 

Intemperance  in  the  use  of  alcoholic 
liquid,  and  intemperance  in  character  in  all 
things  will  be  brought  more  under  subjec- 
tion by  character  building.  A  knowledge 
of  the  force  of  habit  will  be  a  danger  signal 
and  a  guide ;  and  self-reliance  will  give  con- 
trol, growing  stronger  by  inheritance  and 
education. 

Hatred  and  Abuse  Will  Disappear 

Religious  prejudices  and  race  hatred, 
now  ever  smouldering  fires  threatening  de- 
struction, will  give  way  to  an  intelligent  dis- 
cussion and  settlement  of  such  questions 
through  respectful  and  forceful  reasons  ad- 
vanced, addressed  to  the  intelligence  of 
mankind.  Abuse  begets  abuse  and  hatred 
begets  hatred ;  and  this  maxim  under  char- 
acter building  will  be  appreciated  and  ob- 
served. 

Vanity  and  false  pride  will  begin  disap- 
pearing and  will  finally  disappear  from  hu- 
man character.  Foolishly  cultivated  desire 
for  display  and  to  attract  attention  will  give 
way  to  wholesome  bearing  in  manly  and 
womanly  appearance  and  traits  of  pleasing 


56  THE  REMEDY 

character,  that  will  be  infinitely  more  ad- 
mired. 

Selfishness,  covetousness,will  be  brought 
Tinder  control.  One  will  see  the  evil  of  it, 
the  vice  of  it.  It  will  be  replaced  by  an  in- 
telligent selfishness  that  sees  wherein  self  is 
best  benefited  by  promoting  the  best  possi- 
ble civilization. 

Independence  and  self-respect,  acquired 
by  industrious  and  self-reliant  habits,  will 
result  in  a  higher  standard  of  happiness, 
comfort,  peace  of  mind  and  contentment. 
The  labor  and  cares  of  the  world  now  borne 
by  the  few,  will  be  borne  by  the  many  —  till 
it  will  be  a  light  load.  Work  will  have  be- 
come a  pleasure  and  there  will  be  time  and 
desire  to  beautify  the  earth  and  make  of  it 
a  paradise. —  And  crimes,  suicides,  poverty 
and  all  the  attendant  ills  that  now  mark 
our  civilization  will  be  disappearing. 

A  New  Era 

Under  the  influence  of  such  an  era,  would 
it  not  be  reasonable  to  expect  that  a  hun- 
dred years  from  now,  in  passing  through 
the  country,  one  will  find  in  every  town  and 
village  and  in  picturesque  places  by  the  side 
of  beautiful  roads,  elevated  pedestals  and 
on  each,  in  bronze  or  marble  or  granite, 
commanding  statues  representing  some  ex- 
pression in  character  building.     On  one,  the 


THE  REMEDY  57 

word  Industry,  and  a  finely  proportioned 
man  with  muscles  glistening  in  shadow  and 
sunshine.  On  another,  Self-reliance,  rep- 
resenting mental,  moral  and  physical 
strength.  On  another.  Home  Ownership,  a 
sturdy  and  manly  man,  at  his  feet  sheaves 
of  wheat  and  emblems  of  the  home.  On  an- 
other. Matrimony,  a  man  and  woman  in  love 
and  companionship,  his  right  arm  encircling 
her  waist,  the  two  looking  into  each  other's 
eyes  with  all  loyalty,  confidence  and  trust. 
And  on  the  faces  of  all,  expressions  of  hap- 
piness and  contentment. 

And  here  and  there,  in  city  and  by  coun- 
try roadsides,  high  on  a  pedestal,  lying  limp 
and  dead  upon  its  oval  top,  the  life-size  fig- 
ures of  three  men,  bearing  upon  their  facial 
expression  what  they  were  in  life ;  on  one. 
Prejudice,  the  look  of  hatred ;  on  another. 
Vanity,  the  foolish  look  of  silly  pride ;  and 
on  another,  Covetousness,  the  wrinkled  and 
drawn  face  of  greed.  And  on  the  smooth 
surface  of  the  side  of  the  pedestal  in  raised 
letters  these  words:  "After  creating  un- 
told suffering  and  misery  for  centuries,  they 
died  and  departed  from  this  world  in  the 
20th  century. '* 

And  this  statuary  representing  the  liv- 
ing virtues  and  the  dead  vices,  will  be  edu- 
cational object  lessons,  perpetuating  the 
virtues   and   sealing  in  death  the  vices. 


58  THE  REMEDY 

And  these  lessons  in  character  building  will 
be  erected  by  men  and  women  who  have 
found  an  incentive  in  a  holier  ambition,  than 
was  once  inspired  by  the  love  of  vainglory 
and  the  unlimited  accumulation  of  wealtL 


INSERTED  next  is  the  copy  for  a  little 
school  booklet,  that  the  Author  suggests 
for  use  in  the  schools  for  teaching  character 
building. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


61 


CHARACTER  BUILDING  63 


PREFACE 

How  this  booklet  may  be  best  taught,  as 
learned  by  experience,  may  be  later  imparted  to 
teachers  in  a  printed  circular.  It  will  be  seen, 
however,  that  one  way  is  provided  for  now  in 
each  lesson,  requiring  less  than  five  minutes  each 
morning  when  the  school  assembles.  Another 
way  suggested  is  to  have  the  pupils  write  essays 
on  the  different  subjects.  This  will  cause  each 
to  read  the  booklet  to  prepare  for  writing  an 
essay,  and  writing  the  essay  will  serve  to  impress 
the  subject  on  the  mind.  Each  pupil  old  enough 
to  make  the  responses  should  have  a  booklet  and 
be  told  to  show  it  to  the  parents,  that  they,  too, 
may  see  what  is  being  taught.  When  first  pre- 
paring the  school  to  use  each  response,  the  text 
of  the  chapter  should  be  read  aloud.  Use  only 
one  response  each  morning  and  continue  using 
that  one  each  morning  till  the  school  is  fairly 
familiar  with  it  before  passing  to  the  next  one. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


65 


CHAPTER  I 
The  Common  Good 

Man  serves  himself  best  by 
promoting  the  Common 
Good. 

A  civilization  is  necessary 
for  the  peace  and  content- 
ment of  the  people. 

The  better  the  civilization, 
the  easier  it  will  be  for  each 
and  all  to  be  prosperous  and 
happy. 

The  worse  the  civilization, 
the  harder  it  is  for  each  and 


all    to    be 
happy. 
The  true 


THOSE  SUPPORTING 
THE  COMMON  GOOD 
ARE  BTnixDING  THE 
TEMPLE  OF  CIVILI- 
ZATION. 

prosperous    and 


purpose  of  civi- 
lization is  the  advancement 
of  the  human  race. 

Those  who  promote  the 
common  good  are  building 
the  temple  of  civilization. 

And   those   who   do   not 
help  to  promote  the  common 
THOSE  WHO  ARE  good,  but  ucglcct  it  or  try  to 

PT/tJCKING    THE   GOV-        ,        ,      . ,  .  .  ,     ,, 

^S?J%^.  in  P^^^k  1*'  ^6  tearmg  out  the 
^^^i  Xm  ^t^  pillars  that  support  the  tem- 
cvnuzf-S^^^  OF  pie  of  civilization. 


66  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

A  morning  exercise  when  the  school  as- 
sembles. 

Teacher,  when  ready  to  bring  the  school  to 
order,  gives  one  stroke  of  the  tap  bell  on  a  table 
on  the  platform,  on  the  sounding  of  which,  the 
pupils  will  be  seated  and  give  the  teacher  their 
attention-  Waiting  until  all  are  seated  and  quiet 
obtained,  the  teacher  will  tap  the  bell  a  second 
time,  and  the  pupils  will  all  rise. 

Teacher,  addressing  the  school :  How  does 
man  serve  himself  best? 

Pupils,  all  responding  at  the  same  time: 
Man  serves  himself  best  by  promoting  the  Com- 
mon  Good. 

Teacher  taps  the  bell. 

Pupils  take  their  seats  and  the  regular  rou- 
tine of  the  school  day  begins. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


67 


CHAPTER  II 


Habit 


"What  one  gets  in  the  habit  of  doing,  becomes 
second  nature 

If  one  is  in  the  habit  of  doing  right,  it  will 
become  easier,  day  by  day,  to  do  right. 

If  one  is  in  the  habit  of  doing  wrong,  it  will 
become  easier,  day  by  day,  to  do  wrong. 

If  one  is  in  the  habit  of  be- 
ing neat  and  clean,  it  will  be- 
come second  nature  to  be  so. 

If  one  is  in  the  habit  of  be- 
ing polite,  it  will  become  nat- 
ural to  be  polite. 

If  one  is  in  the  habit  of 
telling  the  truth,  it  will  be- 
come natural  and  easy  to  tell 
the  truth. 

If  one  is  in  the  habit  of 
telling  falsehoods,  the  habit  of 
doing  so  will  grow,  till  a  lie 
will  often  be  told  where  the 
truth  would  answer  the  pur- 
pose much  better. 

"Habit  is  a  cable;  we  weave  a  thread  each 
day  till  it  becomes  so  strong  we  cannot  break 
it." 


BY  HABIT  HB  IS 
POLITE. 


6g  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

For  morning  exercise  when  the  school  begins. 

Teacher  will  give  one  tap  of  the  bell  as  before, 
for  all  to  take  their  seats,  waiting  patiently  till 
they  have  done  so.  Then  the  second  tap  for  all 
to  rise.    Then: 

Teacher :  What  effect  has  habit  on  human 
character  f 

Pupils,  all  answering  together:  Habit  is  a 
cable;  we  weave  a  thread  each  day  till  it  becomes 
so  strong  we  cannot  break  it. 

Teacher  taps  the  bell,  all  are  seated  and  the 
day's  work  begins. 

Teacher  will  practice  the  pupils  on  all  re- 
sponses till  later  on  in  the  session,  when  a  ques- 
tion is  put,  it  will  be  answered  readily. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


69 


CHAPTER  III 


Prejudice 

Prejudice  injures  the  person  who  nurses  it  in 
his  breast  more  than  it  does  the  person  against 
whom  it  is  directed. 

One  should  be  slow  in  permitting  prejudice 
to  arise  in  the  mind. 

If  you  think  one  is  seeking  to  offend  you  or 
to  injure  you,  and  conclude  finally  that  such  is 
the  case,  do  not  let  prejudice  ferment  in  your 
mind. 

If  necessary,  defend  yourself. 

Observe  the  character 
of  such  person  as  one  who 
is  unfortunate  —  an  object 
of  curiosity  —  something 
to  be  let  alone. 


One  who  is  quick  to 
take  offense,  who  is  quick 
to  think  someone  is  trying 
to  impose  upon  him,  is 
lacking  in  breadth  of  char- 
acter, and  will  lose  sleep 
over  imaginary  wrongs. 

If  you  would  be  contented  and  happy,  form 
an  intelligent  opinion  of  others  without  preju- 
dice or  hatred. 


PBEJUmCE. 


70  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

For  morning  exercise. 
Use  the  bell,  as  before  stated,  to  seat  the  pu- 
pils or  to  bring  them  to  silence  and  attention  if 
already  seated.  And  then  a  second  bell  to  rise. 
Teacher  should  see  that  they  stand  erect,  shoul- 
ders back  and  breasts  out.  Pupils  will  appre- 
ciate such  physical  training.     Then : 

Teacher:     What   effect    has   'prejudice   on 

one's  character? 
Pupils :       Prejudice  injures  the  person  who 
nurses  it  in  his  breast  more  than 
it  does  the  person  against  whom 
it  is  directed. 
A  tap  of  the  bell  seats  the  pupils  and  the 
day's  lessons  begin, 


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71 


CHAPTER  IV 


Vanity 

Vanity  is  to  be  foolishly  proud  of  oneself. 
It  manifests  itself  in  one's  manners,  bearing, 
dress  and  conversation,  and  if  cultivated,  be- 
comes a  stumbling  block  to  true  success. 

One  should  have  self-respect,  be  clean  and 
dress  well,  self-poised  and  strong  of  confidence, 
but  not  vain. 

One  of  healthy  mind  will  dress  comfortably 
and  have  clothing  that  fits  well  and  becomingly 


The  vain  person  —  one  light  of  mind  —  will 
wear  useless  ornaments  and 
frequently  dress  uncom- 
fortable in  a  self-conceited 
display. 

A  vain  person  is  weak 
morally  and  may  be 
tempted  to  commit  crime. 
One  may  be  lead  by  vanity 
to  want  to  be  President  or 
Congressman.  But  such 
person  does  not  want  it  that 
he  may  assist  in  promoting 
the  Common  Good,  but 
wants  it  from  motives  of 
vainglory  or  self-advance- 
ment. Vanity  is  a  weak- 
ness, preventing  the  perfection  of  human  char- 
acter. 


VANITT. 


72  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

For  morning  exercise. 

Using  the  bell  as  before  to  secure  method, 
harmony  and  discipline. 

Teacher :  What  ejfect  has  vanity  on  human 
character? 

Pupils :  Vanity  is  a  weakness,  preventing 
the  perfection  of  human  char- 
acter. 

A  tap  of  the  bell  and  all  are  seated. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


73 


CHAPTER  V 


Selfishness 


Selfishness  is  a  love  of  self  with  a  desire  to 
have,  to  possess,  regardless  of  the  rights  or  hap- 
piness of  others. 

Vanity  is  a  false  pride  —  to  have  a  foolish 
love  for  oneself.  Selfishness  is  a  greedy  love  for 
oneself  or  one's  offspring. 

Selfishness  is  one  of  the  causes  of  war. 

A  selfish  person  is  lacking  in  love  and  respect 
for  the  Common  Good. 

Individual  selfishness  put 
into  laws  will  in  time  destroy 
a  republic,  and  is  the  mother 
of  despotism. 

Selfishness  —  unchecked 
— may  be  said  to  be  a  consum- 
ing fire  that  burns  out  and  de- 
stroys all  that  is  pure  and  no- 
ble in  one's  character. 

AVARIC3B. 

If  you  find  that  you  have 
a  selfish  nature,  do  all  you  can  to  remove  it  from 
your  disposition,  and  by  trying,  in  time  you  will 
succeed. 


74  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

For  morning  exercise. 

Teacher :  What  influence  has  selfishness  on 
human  character F 

Pupils:  Selfishness,  unchecked,  is  a  con- 
suming fire  that  burns  out  and 
destroys  all  that  is  pure  and  noble 
in  human  character* 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


75 


CHAPTER  VI 


A  Cheerful  Disposition 

If  you  would  be  happy,  cultivate  a  cheerful 
disposition. 

A  cheerful  disposition  will  make  one  more 
popular  with  others. 

A  fault-finding  disposi- 
tion will  make  one  unpop- 
ular. 

With  a  cheerful  disposi- 
tion, one  is  more  apt  to  suc- 
ceed in  life. 

A    cheerful    disposition 
imparts  happiness  to  oneself 
A  chee™^  disposi-     and  to  others. 

A  cheerful  disposition  is  the  sunshine  of 
life  I 


76  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

For  morning  exercise. 

Teacher :     What  is  to  be  gained  by  having  a 

cheerful  disposition f 
Pupils:        With  a  cheerful  disposition,  one 

is  more  apt  to  be  happy  and  to 

succeed  in  life. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING  77 


CHAPTER  VII 
Honesty 

If  you  would  be  content  and  have  peace  of 
mind,  be  honest. 

A  dishonest  man  is  looking  over  his  shoul- 
der, as  it  were,  to  see  what  is 
going  to  hit  him. 

If  a  man  is  honest,  it  will 
tend  to  give  the  face  a  pleas- 
ant appearance  and  to  the  per- 
son a  manly  bearing. 

In  a  woman,  her  expres- 
sion will  be  more  attractive 
and  her  manners  more  pleas- 
ant. 

Take  only  that  which  is 
yours  and  accord  to  others 
that  which  is  theirs  —  and  do 
not  resort  to  selfish  reasoning 
to  quiet  a  conscience  that  will 
HB  IS  LOOKING  OVER    be  bruiscd  and  discontented 

HIS     SHOULDB3R    TO        ,  ,  ,  , 

SEE  WHAT  IS  GOING     by  such  treatment. 

TO  HIT   HIM.  "^ 


78  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

Teacher:  Why  id  it  best  for  one  to  be 
honest  f 

Pupils:  Because  it  assists  one  in  having 
peace  of  mind  and  tends  to  bring 
contentment  and  happiness. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


79 


CHAPTER  VIII 


Industky 


To  be  happy  one  should  be  industrious.  An 
idle  person  cannot  be  happy ;  one  who  is  indus- 
trious may  be. 

Idleness  is  the  Devil's  workshop.  Industry, 
properly  directed,  tends  to  a  happy  state  of  mind 
and  contentment. 

The  lazy  man  tries  to 
make  a  living  without  work. 
This  causes  him  to  lose  re- 
spect for  the  rights  of  others. 
He  wants  someone  else  to 
support  him,  and  that  is  dis- 
honest. 

An  idle  woman  is  usually 
a  gossip.  Her  mind  not  being 
attracted  by  useful  work,  she 
busies  herself  with  her  neigh- 
bor's affairs,  causing  trouble 
for  others- 
Idleness  weakens  the 
mind  and  softens  the  body. 
Industry  brings  with  it  a 
stronger  mind  and  a  stronger 

body. 

When  one  gets  in  the  habit  of  being  indus- 
trious, it  becomes  a  pleasure  to  be  so. 


80  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

Teacher :  What  ejfect  has  idleness  or  indus- 
try on  one's  happiness  f 

Pupils:  An  idle  person  cannot  be  happy. 
One  who  is  industrious  may  be. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


81 


CHAPTER  IX 
Self-Reliance 

If  you  would  succeed,  be  self-reliant.  It 
strengthens  one  to  fall  into  the  habit  of  relying 
on  oneself. 

If  you  would  be  manly 
and  noble,  be  self-reliant  and 
carry  your  part  of  the  respon- 
sibilities of  life.  By  doing  so 
you  will  have  respect  for  your- 
self—  which  will  tend  to 
make  you  more  manly,  or 
womanly,  as  the  case  may  be. 

If  you  impose  on  someone 
to  provide  for  himself  and 
you,  too,  you  will  make  for 
yourself    a    poor    character. 


HIS  FATHER  LEFT 
HIM  $100,000  AND 
IT  TOOK  AWAY  HIS 
BELF-RELIANCa 

Such  a  person  is  a  parasite. 

It  is  better  for  one  to  iai- 
herit  a  character  for  honesty, 
industry  and  self-reliance 
than  to  inherit  a  fortune  in 
money.  The  former  will  be 
a  foundation  upon  which  to 
build,  while  the  latter  may  be 
lost  or  dissipated. 

Self-reliance  makes  one 
stronger,  physically,  mentally 
and  morally. 


HE  HAS  HONESTY. 
INDUSTRY  AND 
SEILF- RELIANCE . 


82  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

Teacher:  What  effect  has  self-reliance  on 
one's  character f 

Pupils:  Self-reliance  makes  one  stronger 
physically,  mentally  and  mor- 
ally, ' 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


83 


CHAPTER  X 


Home  Ownership 

The  love  of  home  is  implanted  in  all  people. 

To  be  happy  and  contented,  it  is  necessary  to 
have  a  home. 

To  be  a  home,  it  wants  to  belong  to  one  or  to 
one's  parents. 

Home  ownership  encourages  industry,  better 
houses,  better  crops,  better  fences  and  the  plant- 
ing of  flowers. 

A  tenant  lacks  encouragement  and  does  not 
plan  or  build  for  the  future.  The  tendency  is 
for  him  to  become  less  industrious  and  not  so 
good  a  citizen. 


A  nation  of  home  owners  is  a  strong  nation. 

A  nation  of  tenants  is  a  weak  nation. 

The  rise  or  decline  of  civilization  may  be 
marked  by  the  increase  or  decrease  in  home 
ownership. 


84  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


RESPONSE 

Teacher:  What  ejfect  has  home  ownership 
on  civilization  f 

Pupils:  The  rise  or  decline  of  civilization 
may  be  marked  by  the  increase 
or  decrease  in  home  ownership. 


CHARACTER  BUILDING 


85 


A  DIALOGUE 

For  Use  at  School  Exhibitions 

Two  Characters  — 
John  and  Dick.  John  on 
right  side  of  stage,  as  it 
faces  the  audience,  and 
Dick  on  left  side. 

John:  Dick,  I  belong 
to  an  Order. 

Dick:  An  Order  ? 
To  what  Order  do  you  be- 
long, John? 

John:  To  the  Order 
of  Civilization. 
Dick:  Has  it  a  grip,  signs  and  a  password? 
John:  A  grip?  Nol  Except  the  grip  of  a 
manly  man.  As  for  signs  and  passwords,  if  one 
belongs  to  the  Order,  it  may  be  known  by  his 
deportment  and  the  answers  he  may  make  to 
questions  asked. 

Dick  silent.  John  turns,  folds  arms,  walks 
to  corner  of  stage.  Speaking  to  the  audience, 
says:  I  will  try  him  and  see  if  he  belongs  to 
this  Order.  Walking  back,  facing  Dick,  says, 
speaking  slowly: 

How  may  man  serve  himself  best? 
Dick:     Man  serves  himself  best  by  promot- 
ing the  Common  Good. 

John:  But  may  not  a  man  ignore  the  Com- 
mon Good  and  gain  great  riches? 


86  CHARACTER  BUILDING 

Dick:  One  does  not  gain  great  riches  who 
loses  character,  his  good  conscience,  and  his 
peace  of  mind. 

John:  Folds  arms,  walks  away.  To  the 
audience  says:  He  speaks  well,  I  will  try  him 
further.     Walks  back,  addressing  Dick. 

But  one  is  not  prepared  to  serve  himself  best 
or  promote  the  Common  Good  who  has  not  at- 
tributes of  character  that  thus  forefend  him. 
What  say  you  to  this  question :  What  effect  has 
Habit  on  human  character? 

Dick:  Habit — habit  (thinking)  is  a  cable; 
we  weave  a  thread  each  day  till  it  becomes  so 
strong  we  cannot  break  it.  If  one  does  what  is 
right,  it  becomes  easier  day  by  day  to  do  what  is 
right.  If  one  does  what  is  wrong,  it  becomes 
easier  day  by  day  to  do  what  is  wrong.  Thus, 
habit  may  become  a  cable,  till  it  is  so  strong  we 
cannot  break  it. 

John:  Walks  away,  face  to  audience,  says: 
He  speaks  a  wisdom  that  even  a  youth  can  grasp. 
I  will  try  him  again.     Walks  back,  facing  Dick, 


Tell  me  —  what  think  you  of  prejudice  — 
its  effect  on  man-making. 

Dick:  Prejudice  is  a  weakness  in  one,  and 
injures  the  person  who  nurses  it  in  his  breast 
more  than  it  does  the  person  against  whom  it  is 
directed. 

John:  Yes.  It  causes  loss  of  sleep  and  illy 
distempers  the  brain  in  which  it  curdles.  Van- 
ity?    What  say  you  of  vanity? 


CHARACTER  BUILDING  87 

Die  k :  Vanity  is  a  weakness,  preventing  the 
perfection  of  human  character. 

John:  Aside  to  the  audience.  He  answers 
well.  Now  to  the  greater  test.  Turning  again, 
he  faces  Dick: 

Selfishness.  Self-ish-ness.  What  think  you 
on  this  subject? 

Dick :  Selfishness ?  That  selfishness  which 
ignores  the  common  good?  Which  places  a 
penny  before  the  eye  and  obscures  the  light  of 
the  sun?  Is  it  of  that  you  would  have  me 
speak? 

John:    Yea,  speak  on. 

Dick:  It  has  bathed  the  world  in  tears  and 
blood.  Selfishness,  unchecked,  is  a  consuming 
fire  that  burns  out  and  destroys  all  that  is  pure 
and  noble  in  human  character. 

John:  Dick,  you  have  stood  the  test. 
Right  gladly  do  I  take  your  hand.  Stepping 
forward  and  offering  his  hand. 

Die k :  Ho Iding  up  a  hand  and  waving  Jo hn 
off.  It  is  now  my  turn  to  ask  questions.  Folds 
his  arms,  walks  to  and  fro  on  the  stage  for  a  tyio- 
ment,  with  head  down,  as  if  thinking  deeply; 
then  facing  John:  You  have  spoken  of  the  evil 
forces  in  human  character  —  prejudice,  vanity 
and  covetousness.  But  what  of  the  positive 
forces?  You  have  named  material  that  should 
not  be  used  in  construction.  But  what  of  the 
constructive  material?  I  am  now  going  to  put 
questions  to  you.  What  affect  on  one's  char- 
acter has  one's  disposition? 

John:    If  you  would  be  happy  and  success- 


88  CHARACTER  BUILDING 

ful,  cultivate  a  cheerful  disposition.  It  is  essen- 
tial in  molding  a  proper  character. 

Dick:  With  left  elbow  in  right  hand  and 
left  hand  to  chin,  aside  to  audience:  He  has 
answered  right.     To  John: 

And  what  of  honesty? 

John:  Be  honest  if  you  would  have  peace 
of  mind.  The  dishonest  man  is  looking  over 
his  shoulder  to  see  what  is  going  to  hit 
him.  Looking  first  over  his  left  then  his  right 
shoulder. 

Dick:  Twice  you  have  answered  right,  A 
third  question  is  this:  What  of  industry  and 
its  relation  to  human  happiness? 

John:  To  be  happy,  it  is  necessary  to  be 
industrious.  Idleness  breeds  discontent.  It  is 
the  devil's  workshop.  Industry,  properly  di- 
rected, gets  one  interested  in  his  vocation,  tend- 
ing to  a  happy  state  of  mind  and  contentment. 

Dick:  To  the  audience.  Three  times  he 
has  answered  as  he  should  have  answered.  I  am 
keeping  count.  Counting  on  his  fingers:  A 
cheerful  disposition,  honesty  and  industry. 
Now,  there  is  a  fourth  I  would  put.  Turning 
and  facing  John: 

In  character  building,  what  importance  do 
you  give  to  self-reliance? 

John:  Self-reliance  makes  one  stronger 
physically,  mentally  and  morally.  Shoulders 
back  as  if  conscious  of  his  self-reliant  strength, 
speaking  slowly,  with  right  hand  extended, 
showing  palm   to   audience.     All  honest  per- 


CHARACTER  BUILDING  89 

sons  hate  an  almstaker  —  one  who  would  Hve  on 
the  industry  of  another. 

Dick:  In  thoughtful  mood,  walks  to  corner 
of  stage,  and  facing  audience,  says:  Again  he 
has  answered  right.  He  questions  well  and  he 
answers  well.  I  will  put  a  final  test  to  him. 
Turning,  he  walks  back  and  faces  John:  Tell 
me,  sir,  what  relation  has  Home  Ownership  to 
Civilization? 

John:  Home  ownership  encourages  indus- 
try, better  houses,  better  crops,  better  fences  and 
the  planting  of  flowers.  A  tenant  lacks  encour- 
agement and  does  not  plan  or  build  for  the  fu- 
ture. A  nation  of  home  owners  is  a  strong  na- 
tion! A  nation  of  tenants  is  a  weak  nation! 
The  rise  or  decline  of  civilization  may  be  marked 
by  the  increase  or  decrease  in  home  ownership  1 
An  increasing  number  of  home  owners  means  a 
rising  civilization ! 

Dick:  Now,  sir,  I  am  ready  to  accept  your 
hand,  and  readily  do  I  recognize  that  you  are  a 
member  of  the  Order  of  Civilization,  the  true 
purpose  of  which  is  the  advancement  of  the  hu- 
man race.  Extending  his  hand  to  John,  they 
cordially  shake  hands.  Dick  with  right  arm 
over  John's  shoulder,  and  John  with  left  arm  on 
Dick's  back,  advancing  to  the  front  of  the  stage, 
say  in  unison,  John  with  right  hand  and  index 
finger  extended:  The  true  purpose  of  civiliza- 
tion is  the  advancement  of  the  human  race!!! 


90  CHARACTER  BUILDING 


Eelating  to  the  Booklet 

It  will  be  observed  that  time  taken  in  the 
schoolroom,  by  using  the  foregoing  booklet,  is 
not  more  than  five  minutes  each  morning. 
There  can,  therefore,  be  no  objection  from  the 
standpoint  of  time.  It  should,  however,  be  done 
deliberately  and  impressively,  not  hurriedly. 
The  teacher  can  aid  in  this  by  walking  down  the 
aisle,  seeing  to  it  that  all  are  standing  in  straight 
rows,  lining  them  up,  heads  up  and  shoulders 
back,  before  putting  the  question  and  receiving 
the  response  that  is  to  drive  home  in  their  minds 
an  impression  that  is  to  be  lasting. 

An  elementary  truth  is  easily  taught.  It 
is  moving  along  the  line  of  least  resistance  and 
aids  in  its  teaching  itself. 

One  of  the  greatest  benefits,  no  doubt,  will 
come  from  essays  written  by  the  pupils  on  the 
subjects. 

I  think  care  should  be  taken  in  not  over- 
teaching.  There  is  a  slight  sensitiveness  in  one 
if  the  impression  is  made  that  a  lecture  on  char- 
acter is  personal  and  intended  as  a  rebuke  to 
one.  Pupils  are  brighter  than  the  average  per- 
son will  give  them  credit  for  being,  and  in  their 
youth,  their  hearts  and  sympathies  will  quickly 
distinguish  between  right  and  wrong.  They 
will,  as  a  rule,  enjoy  character  teaching  where  it 
is  done  with  a  pleasant  system,  but  for  the 
teacher  to  harp  on  it  or  nag  at  it,  might  create 
prejudice. 


CHAPTER  V 
Wherein  We  Act  Collectively 

IT  is  again  important  to  refer  to  wherein 
the  citizens  acting  collectively  try  to  set 
Tip  a  civilization  and  the  effect  character 
building  has  thereon. 

In  the  collective  effort  to  begin  and  im- 
prove a  civilization,  rules  are  established 
called  **laws";  —  that  provide  for  money, 
roads,  schools  and  many  other  necessary 
things,  among  them  a  system  of  revenue, 
commonly  known  as  taxes,  for  money  to  pay 
the  expense  required  to  do  these  things ;  and 
men  are  elected  or  appointed  to  fill  the 
offices  who  are  relied  on  to  enact  needed 
laws  and  to  perform  the  official  duties. 

The  power,  collectively,  to  elect  officers 
and  do  the  things  intended  for  the  general 
good  in  the  republic  of  the  United  States,  is 
divided  between  towns,  townships,  counties, 
states  and  the  nation.  Each  is  given  power 
to  levy  taxes  and  make  roads  and  to  the  na- 
tion, only,  is  given  the  power  to  make 
money.  Many  other  things  are  given  each 
to  do.  The  law  making  power,  to  establish 
rules  of  action,  is  given,  mainly,  to  the 
states  and  the  nation,  vested  in  a  body  of 
men,  in  the  states,  known  as  The  Legisla- 
ture; and  in  the  nation  in  a  body  of  men 
91 


92  THE  REMEDY 

known  as  The  Congress ;  and  a  separate  set 
of  executive  officers  is  provided  for  to  look 
after  the  business  of  each  division  of  the 
government  and  to  enforce  the  rules  of  ac- 
tion established. 

The  division  of  government  into  so 
many  parts  is  to  give  local  self-government 
and  bring  it  closer  to  the  people ;  and  this, 
probably,  in  a  general  sense,  cannot  be  im- 
proved upon.  This  form  of  government 
was  the  result  of  experience  as  people 
groped  and  felt  their  way  up  and  freed 
themselves  from  tyranny  where  a  few  men, 
imbued  by  selfishness,  ruled  the  people,  di- 
viding the  land  among  the  few,  and,  in  many 
ways,  lessening  the  opportunity  of  the  peo- 
ple to  acquire  homes,  comfort,  contentment 
and  happiness. 

Having  secured  a  popular  form  of  gov- 
ernment, where  the  people  should  be  inter- 
ested, generally,  and  feel  responsible,  nat- 
urally, the  character  of  the  people  affects 
the  outcome.  If  conducted  wisely  and  effi- 
ciently, its  beneficial  results  are  practically 
unlimited ;  but  if  conducted  ignorantly  and 
corruptly,  it  falls  into  confusion  and  results 
disastrously. 

In  going  about  it,  the  people  having, 
more  or  less,  an  imperfect  idea  as  to  what 
would  be  best,  and  selfish  interests  conflict- 
ing with  disinterested  motives,  it  has  re- 


THE  REMEDY  93 

suited,  with  all  popular  forms  of  govern- 
ment, in  two  or  more  organizations  among 
the  people  known  as  political  parties,  each 
giving  itself  a  name,  each  naming  its  candi- 
dates for  the  offices  and  each  advancing  its 
views  as  to  what  it  thinks  best  to  do,  ex- 
pressed in  a  printed  statement  of  principles 
that  is  circulated  among  the  people. 

The  Convention  System 

Each  political  party  adopted  the  method 
of  first  holding  township  conventions  to 
which  those  believing  in  its  policies  were  in- 
vited and  at  which  men  were  named  as  its 
proposed  township  officers,  or  candidates  of 
that  party  for  the  people  to  vote  on  at  the 
general  election ;  and,  selected  delegates  to 
a  county  convention  of  its  party,  where,  in 
like  manner,  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  dele- 
gates assembled  in  county  convention, 
names  were  submitted  to  the  people  to  fill 
the  county  offices;  and  the  county  conven- 
tion selected  delegates  to  attend  its  party 's 
state  convention,  where,  in  like  manner,  as 
in  township  and  county,  its  party's  choice 
was  made  for  men  to  fill  the  state  offices; 
and  the  state  convention,  in  turn  selected 
delegates  to  a  national  convention,  that  in 
turn,  submitted  to  the  people  its  party's 
choice  for  such  national  officers  as  were  to 
be  selected  by  the  people.    In  legislative 


94  THE  REMEDY 

and  congressional  districts  the  same  process 
named  the  candidates  of  each  political  party 
and  the  congressional  conventions  ap- 
pointed delegates,  also,  to  its  party  *s  na- 
tional convention.  So,  when  the  general 
election  came,  the  people,  by  a  majority 
or  plurality  vote,  decided  which  party's 
principles  they  preferred  and  who  should 
be  their  ofificers  and  law  makers ;  they  select- 
ing from  the  names  submitted  by  the  two  or 
more  political  parties. 

The  result  of  this  method  was  that  the 
people  did  not  take  a  general  interest  in  at- 
tending the  to^vnship  conventions,  naming 
proper  candidates  and  selecting  delegates 
to  the  county  convention.  And,  in  time,  in 
the  main,  only  those  attended  conventions 
who  had  a  selfish  interest  to  be  served  by 
the  offices  to  be  filled  or  the  platform  of 
principles  to  be  adopted. 

It  resulted  in  cultivating  a  set  of  office 
seekers  who  saw  how  the  indifference  of  the 
people  enabled  them  to  manipulate  the  con- 
ventions. Cliques  and  combinations  of 
office  seekers  wanting  the  many  offices  and 
selfish  interests,  influenced  the  appointment 
of  delegates.  This  practice  became  general 
where  a  political  party  was  in  the  majority 
or  when  it  had  reasonable  hopes  of  being  so. 
Beginning  with  the  township  conventions 
that  would  name  delegates  to  the  county 


THE  REMEDY  95 

conventions,  those  seeking  comity  offices 
would  have  some  one  looking  after  each 
township  convention,  the  indifference  of  the 
people  being  well  known  to  them.  Usually 
not  to  exceed  a  dozen  men  would  meet  in  the 
township,  most  of  whom  had  come  influ- 
enced to  do  so  by  candidates  or  agents  of 
candidates  for  the  county  offices,  and  where 
a  larger  number  attended  it  was  the  friends 
of  rival  candidates,  each  induced  to  come 
as  a  personal  favor  to  a  candidate  or  as  a 
personal  favor  extended  to  one  of  the  candi- 
date 's  friends. 

And  the  selection  of  delegates  by  the 
county  conventions  and  so  on,  in  turn,  by  the 
other  conventions,  in  all  the  parties  that  had 
a  reasonable  chance  of  winning  at  the  elec- 
tion, the  same  influences  were  at  work  in 
naming  the  candidates  that,  if  elected,  filled 
the  offices,  both  legislative  and  executive. 

And  in  time,  through  the  convention  sys- 
tem, selfish  influences  predominated,  result- 
ing in  laws  to  promote  selfish  purposes,  at- 
tended with  great  extravagance  and  in- 
creased tax  levies  and  appropriations,  and 
unskilled,  unwise  and  often  corrupt  man- 
agement of  the  public  business.  Thus,  a 
collective  effort  to  promote  civilization  met 
with  a  serious  hindrance  in  the  characters 
of  men,  aided  and  made  possible  by  a  gen- 
eral lack  of  appreciation  on  the  part  of  the 


90  THE  REMEDY 

people  as  to  how  a  civilization  is  effected, 
made  or  unmade,  by  the  rules  of  action  es- 
tablished for  it  and  the  character  of  the 
men  placed  in  charge. 

The  convention  system  came  to  be  re- 
garded as  a  failure  on  account  of  the  lack 
of  interest  of  the  people  and  the  selfish  char- 
acter of  those  who  used  it  for  their  personal 
advantage.  The  conventions,  instead  of  se- 
lecting men  solely  for  their  fitness  for  the 
offices  to  be  filled ,  and  in  legislative  and  con- 
gressional conventions,  instead  of  selecting 
able  and  honest  men  who  were  making  a 
study  of  the  science  of  government  as  affect- 
ing civilization,  selected,  as  a  rule,  men  for 
whom  the  delegates  were  voting  as  a  per- 
sonal favor  and  who,  if  elected,  represented 
a  vain  desire  for  self -promotion,  or  a  selfish 
interest  in  some  form. 

Primary  Elections 

A  counter  influence  lead  by  broad- 
minded  men,  had  contended  against  selfish 
influences  in  political  party  organization, 
pointing  out  its  effect ;  and  finally  a  law  has 
been  adopted  by  the  people  in  many  states 
taking  away  from  conventions  the  nomina- 
tion of  candidates,  and  adopting  in  its  place, 
a  system  by  which  the  voters  in  each  party, 
vote  directly  on  the  names  submitted  to 
them  for  their  choice,  with  the  free  right  for 


THE  REMEDY  97 

anyone 's  name  to  be  thus  submitted.  This 
is  known  as  a  party  primary  election  —  the 
primary  elections  taking  the  place  of  con- 
ventions. In  most  of  these  primary  laws,  a 
majority  choice  is  not  required,  only  a  plu- 
rality, as  between  three  or  more  candidates 
for  one  office,  giving  the  nomination  to  the 
one  receiving  the  most  votes,  though  not  a 
majority  of  all  the  votes  cast.  However,  in 
some  states  a  method  is  provided  for 
whereby  a  majority  preference  is  made 
practical  as  among  numerous  names  sub- 
mitted for  the  same  office  at  one  primary 
election. 

The  object  of  primary  elections  to  nom- 
inate the  candidates  for  the  various  polit- 
ical parties,  was  to  try  to  escape  the  influ- 
ences of  selfishness  in  human  character  that 
had  made  the  convention  system  a  failure, 
and  to  try  to  overcome  the  indifference  of 
the  people. 

It  has  made  the  method  of  selecting  the 
candidates  of  the  various  political  parties 
more  cumbersome  and  expensive,  both  to 
the  people,  who  pay  the  taxes,  and  to  the 
candidates  and  those  promoting  the  candi- 
dates of  their  choice.  But  this  would  not  be 
a  serious  objection  if  it  resulted  in  allaying 
prejudices  and  freeing  the  result  from  self- 
ish influences. 

This  method,  however,  has  resulted  in 


98  THE  EEMEDY 

the  confusion  of  many  men  announcing 
their  own  candidacies  before  the  primary, 
and  also  in  bringing  to  the  front  the  same 
class  of  men  who  exerted  a  selfish  influence 
on  the  conventions;  and,  personally  and 
through  runners  and  agents,  bringing  to  the 
primary  elections  in  each  township  and  pre- 
cinct as  many  as  possible  who  will  vote  for 
them  through  some  selfish  motive  or  as  a 
personal  favor,  the  same  method  they  used 
in  controlling  the  township  conventions. 
The  primary  election  has  awakened  more 
interest  among  the  people  as  to  what  the 
public  welfare  has  to  do  with  the  personal 
welfare ;  but  evil  character  is  there,  not  al- 
ways, but  in  the  main,  predominating  as  in 
the  convention  system.  The  people  do  not 
take  a  sufficient  interest  for  a  number  of 
them  to  get  together  to  unselfishly  and 
wisely  promote  the  candidacy  of  men  to  vote 
for  at  the  party  primary,  but  in  their  indif- 
ference, leave  it  a  choice  between  the  men 
who  are  advancing  their  own  candidacies. 
Under  the  primary  election  system  it  has 
now  become  a  common  practice  with  many 
candidates  to  corrupt  the  elective  franchise 
by  the  use  of  money  to  buy  the  influence 
and  active  support  of  one  or  more  men  in 
each  precinct  to  increase  their  votes.  And 
the  practice  is  indulged  of  candidates  using 
abuse  of  their  opponents  and  falsehoods  re- 


THE  EEMEDY  99 

garding  them,  aided  in  this  by  their  inter- 
ested supporters,  till  a  man  of  character 
who  would  make  a  good  officer  shrinks  from 
becoming  a  candidate.  Thus  we  see  that 
whatever  method  is  adopted  to  select  the 
candidates  of  political  parties,  the  question 
of  character  is  the  vital  question. 

In  a  convention  of  able  and  unselfish 
men,  representing  the  men  at  home  of  this 
class  who  have  selected  them,  having  in 
view,  solely,  the  adoption  of  principles  lead- 
ing to  a  better  civilization,  and  the  selection 
of  candidates  fitted  to  fill  the  offices,  meeting 
in  a  room  where  they  can  confer  and  discuss 
the  principles  and  the  fitness  and  availabil- 
ity of  men  suggested  for  candidates,  unin- 
fluenced by  sordid  or  selfish  motives,  a  bet- 
ter selection  would,  no  doubt,  be  made  than 
by  the  primary  system  where  it  is  not  prac- 
tical for  all  the  voters  of  each  party  to  get 
together  and  advise,  confer  and  act  with  de- 
liberation, but  the  convention  system,  as  has 
been  found,  is  not  practical  until  the  charac- 
ters of  the  people  have  been  remolded  or  a 
new  generation  of  men  are  on  the  scene  of 
action  possessing  the  desired  character  — 
and  to  secure  that,  we  must  rely  on  an  edu- 
cational method. 

The  Elections 

The  necessity  of  character  building  is 
again  emphasized  when  it  comes  to  the  gen- 


100  THE  REMEDY 

eral  election  for  the  voters  to  choose  be- 
tween the  candidates  that  are  presented  to 
them  by  the  different  political  organiza- 
tions. Here  the  same  confusion  exists  and 
the  same  influences  are  at  work,  where  the 
contest  is  reasonably  close,  as  in  the  con- 
vention and  primary  systems.  The  people 
can  only  vote,  choose,  as  between  the  candi- 
dates that  have  been  previously  selected  by 
conventions  or  by  party  primary  elections. 

Here  and  there  we  find  a  conscientious 
statesman  through  oral  and  printed 
speeches  advocating  the  success  of  a  party 
and  its  candidates,  hoping  for  an  onward, 
though  slow  progress  of  the  people;  and 
many  good  and  unselfish  citizens  support- 
ing one  party  or  another,  likewise  trying  to 
secure  progress ;  but  underlying  the  whole 
effort  is  the  polluted  source  of  party's  prin- 
ciples and  the  selection  of  their  candidates ; 
and  the  same  selfish  influences  as  in  the 
conventions  and  in  the  primaries  are  now 
brought  to  bear  on  the  result  of  the  general 
election,  especially  where  the  contest  is  close 
or  the  parties  about  evenly  divided. 

Abuse  is  used  and  prejudices  are 
aroused,  selfish  instincts  are  appealed  to 
and  corrupt  practices  are  resorted  to  to  se- 
cure votes;  especially  is  the  latter  true  in 
county,  state  or  nation  where  the  contest  is 
supposed  to  be  close.    In  Adams  County, 


THE  REMEDY  101 

Ohio,  under  indictment,  recently  about  one 
thousand  men  plead  guilty  and  confessed  to 
selling  their  votes.  In  a  county  in  Virginia 
a  similar  condition  became  known ;  and  the 
press,  the  other  day,  reports  eleven  hundred 
indictments  in  Pike  County,  Kentucky,  for 
buying  and  selling  votes.  And  what  is  true 
in  Ohio  and  Virginia  and  Kentucky  may  be 
said,  more  or  less,  of  conditions  elsewhere. 

Politics  has  been  so  corrupted  by  evil 
characters  that  a  percentage  of  the  people 
have  lost  confidence  in  a  favorable  result  be- 
ing obtained ;  and  many  of  them,  having  no 
confidence  in  better  conditions  prevailing, 
are  willing  to  sell  their  influence  and  votes 
as  between  opposing  candidates  to  relieve 
their  temporary  wants ;  made  more  numer- 
ous by  mismanagement  of  the  government 
and  by  selfishness  and  covetousness  that  are 
depriving  them  of  the  opportunity  for  inde- 
pendent citizenship. 

Naturally,  all  this  has  resulted  in  the 
election  of  officers,  including  members  of 
the  state  legislatures  and  congress,  who,  as 
a  rule,  are  not  statesmen  but  men  prompted 
by  vainglory  and  selfish  motives,  and  who 
have  no  proper  conception  of  how  to  pro- 
mote a  better  civilization. 

Thus,  through  vanity  and  selfishness 
and  a  lack  of  positive  forces  in  human  char- 
acter, the  attempt  by  collective  effort  to 


102  THE  KEMEDY 

build  wisely  is  being  corrupted  and  brought 
into  confusion  and  to  failure,  with  disas- 
trous results  impending  and  threatened  dis- 
integration of  our  civilization. 

The  One  First  Eemedy 

•  There  is  but  one  remedy  underlying  it 
all  and  that  is  character  building ;  and  that 
remedy  is  educational.    The  fault  is  world- 
wide and  the  remedy  needed  is  world-wide. 
So  great  has  become  the  confusion  and 
the  dread  of  what  is  to  follow,  new  political 
parties  are  forming,  with  honest  motives 
and  intentions,  which,  in  the  very  nature  of 
things,  will  crumble  and  become  corrupted 
by  the  same  influences  that  are  destroying 
the  usefulness  of  the  older  political  parties. 
There  is  no  hope  of  collective  effort  estab- 
lishing a  better  civilization  till  an  improve- 
ment is  made  in  the  character  of  the  people ; 
and,  a  majority  of  them  realize  that  we  are 
dependent  on  unselfish,  intelligent,  collect- 
ive effort  to  establish  a  better  civilization 
— and  present  conditions  emphasize  the  im- 
perative need  of  character  building  among 
the  people  generally. 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  wherein  we  act 
collectively  to  promote  a  civilization,  the 
first  of  the  ten  subjects  in  character,  the 
Common  Good,  must  be  understood  and  ap- 
preciated. 


THE  EEMEDY  103 

It  is  first  important  that  we  well  under- 
stand that  the  growth  of  our  civilization 
and  the  happiness  of  mankind  depend  on  the 
intelligent  and  unselfish  handling  of  the  col- 
lective function.  That  those  voting  at  a 
convention,  or  a  primary,  or  an  election, 
should  have  in  view  the  promotion  of  those 
principles  that  vnll  make  a  better  civiliza- 
tion; and  the  selection  of  men  to  fill  the 
offices  who  are  capable,  and  who  have  a 
knowledge  of  and  appreciation  of  the  im- 
portance of  their  duties  as  related  to  the 
common  good, — and  this  is  a  subject  of 
education. 

At  conventions,  in  primaries  and  at  elec- 
tions, is  no  place  for  the  man  seeking  office 
who  aspires  to  vainglory,  or  who  is 
prompted  by  other  than  a  worthy  ambition. 
He  should  be  a  man  who  understands  char- 
acter building,  is  familiar  with  each  sub- 
ject that  makes  character,  has  given  evi- 
dence by  words  and  acts  that  he  sincerely 
desires  to  promote  the  common  good;  and 
realizes  that  the  making  of  a  better  civili- 
zation depends  upon  the  efficiency,  intelli- 
gence and  unselfish  action  of  public  officers 
from  the  township  road  overseer  to  the 
highest  officer  in  the  nation.  In  asking  the 
people  for  an  office,  or  applying  to  an  ap- 
pointing power,  where  the  office  is  thus  con- 
ferred, one  should  feel  that  he  fills  these  re- 


104  THE  REMEDY 

quirements  and  when  he  does  so  feel,  he 
should  be  willing  to  assist  and  to  initiate  his 
candidacy.  And  the  people,  one  and  in 
groups,  should  be  interested  in  seeking  out 
and  initiating  the  candidacy  of  men  who  fill 
this  standard, — and  this  is  a  matter  of  edu- 
cation. 

Education,  properly  applied,  is  the  most 
powerful  influence  in  the  world.  As  the 
hand  can  reach  out,  take  hold  of  and  mold 
putty,  so  can  education,  beginning  early,  di- 
rected right,  in  a  sense,  in  a  way,  mold  char- 
acter. And  in  time  it  will  overcome  the 
tendency  to  go  wrong  acquired  by  heredity. 
The  underlying,  basic  prompting  is  the  con- 
science and  it  seeks  to  go  right.  It  is  in  the 
power  of  the  human  race,  by  education,  to 
free  itself  from  Evil. 

The  work  of  character  building  should 
begin  at  once,  systematically,  vigorously 
and  universally.  It  will  not  do  to  wait — to 
put  off  the  day  of  applying  the  remedy. 
Delay  is  dangerous !  To  defer  too  long  will 
bring  us  to  the  dead  line !  And  when  across 
that,  it  will  be  too  late !  We  stand  in  the 
presence  of  imminent  danger  and  every  in- 
stinct of  heroism  appeals  to  us  to  act,  and 
to  act  at  once ! 

A  storm  is  threatening,  compared  with 
which  the  European  and  Asiatic  wars,  and 
the  anarchy  in  Mexico,  is  but  a  prelude! 


THE  REMEDY  105 

The  indifference  that  preceded  the  present 
cataclysm  is  but  similar  to  the  threatened 
indifference  to  precede  a  World's  tragedy! 
An  educational  revolution  coming  quick  and 
swift  cannot  come  too  soon!  Each  good 
citizen  can  be  a  leader !  And  each  school- 
teacher, even  into  the  remotest  fastnesses 
of  the  mountains,  the  home  of  the  log  school- 
house,  can  be  a  hero ! 


CHAPTER  VI 

Twenty  Years  Hence 

Suppose  education  for  cHaracter 
building  has  been  generally  applied 
and  made  universally  popular,  in  con- 
nection with  the  chastisement  the 
people  are  receiving  for  having  lost 
their  way,  would  not  the  following  ap- 
pearing in  current  literature  twenty 
years  from  now  be  practical  and  rea- 
onable? 


IT  is  now  the  year  1935,  and  as  the  dele- 
gates from  all  the  nations  in  the  world 
are  assembling  in  convention  in  the 
room  of  the  House  of  Representatives  at 
Washington,  in  the  United  States,  to  dis- 
cuss the  progress  of  the  world's  civiliza- 
tion, a  retrospective  view  of  the  events  lead- 
ing up  to  this  day  will  ever  have  a  living  in- 
terest that  time  will  not  dim  and  no  events 
of  the  future  can  efface. 

It  is  a  span  of  twenty  years  between 
the  conditions  that  were  and  the  conditions 
that  are.  At  the  further  end  of  this  bridge 
of  time  were  chaos,  character  demoralized, 
nnhappiness  and  discontent  —  co-extensive 
with  the  boundaries  of  the  world;  a  black 
pall  of  smoke  hung  over  the  contbient  across 
106 


THE  REMEDY  107 

the  seas,  where  the  people  of  more  than  one- 
half  of  the  inhabitable  globe  were  in  san- 
guinary conflict,  killing  each  other  and  de- 
stroying the  works  of  man  that  had  been 
centuries  in  the  making. — And  at  this  end 
of  the  bridge  of  time,  peace  on  earth  that 
has  come  to  stay  and  civilization  crowding 
to  the  front  by  rapid  strides  that  promises 
the  fulfillment  of  man's  utmost  hope. 

At  the  close  of  the  great  war,  in  the 
world's  convention  that  met  at  The  Hague, 
the  cause  of  war  and  man's  disputes  and 
quarrels  were  analyzed.  Man's  purpose 
here  on  earth;  his  aim,  the  crowning  of  a 
great  civilization;  the  object,  peace,  pros- 
perity, happiness  and  contentment  of  the 
people,  not  the  people  of  one  nation  but  of 
all  nations ;  the  victories  of  peace,  greater 
than  the  victories  of  war;  were  the  senti- 
ments that  inspired  and  moved  the  members 
of  that  great  world's  assembly.  And  out 
of  it  came  the  magna  charta,  that  enunciated 
a  rule  of  action  for  nations.  In  the  agree- 
ment there  signed,  were  the  following  prin- 
ciples and  binding  rules  of  action,  accepted 
by  all  the  nations : 

1 .  To  get  ready  for  war  is  to  encourage 
war.  To  train  men  to  kill  men  is  to  edu- 
cate in  them  the  desire  to  do  that  which 
they  are  trained  to  do.  However,  until  by 
character  training,  which  we  recommend 


108  THE  REMEDY 

be  instituted,  vigorously,  in  all  the  nations, 
to  the  end  that  false  pride,  race  hatred,  prej- 
udices and  covetousness  be,  in  the  main, 
eliminated  from  the  character  of  the  people 
and  the  positive  forces  for  good  in  human 
character  have  been  improved  and  culti- 
vated, we  recognize  the  necessity  of  a  re- 
straining force  to  check  the  selfish,  protect 
the  weak  and  establish  justice  among  na- 
tions. 

2.  We  agree  that  all  the  nations  of  the 
world  shall  disarm,  except  to  provide  a 
joint  naval  force,  hereinafter  provided  for, 
and  each  a  standing  army  for  police  duty 
within  its  own  border;  which  standing 
army  shall  not  exceed  in  number  one-tenth 
of  one  per  cent  of  the  population  of  each 
nation,  but  which  may  be  increased  on 
cause  shown,  temporarily,  with  the  consent 
of  the  International  Court  of  Justice  here- 
inafter provided  for;  and  each  nation 
agrees  not  to  train  or  maintain  a  reserve 
army,  and,  except  men  for  what  is  com- 
monly known  as  a  civil  police  force,  no 
one  shall  be  trained  for  armed  duty  except 
as  herein  provided  for. 

3-  A  mutual  naval  force  shall  be  main- 
tained by  the  nations  to  this  agreement, 
which  shall  consist  of  the  type  of  vessels 
known  as  "cruisers,"  or  of  less  tonnage  and 
expense;  to  which  joint  navy,  nations  hav- 
ing a  population  of  seventy-five  millions  or 
more  are  to  contribute  ten  such  vessels ;  50 


THE  REMEDY  109 

million  to  75  million,  five  such  vessels ;  25 
million  to  50  million,  three  such  vessels; 
and  less  than  25  million  inhabitants,  one 
such  vessel.  Vessels  of  like  kind,  to  have 
like  armament,  and  each  manned  by  a  crew 
equal  in  number  and  an  equal  number  of 
marines.  This  joint  navy  shall  be  in  com- 
mand of  a  commodore  or  admiral,  to  be  ap- 
pointed, annually,  by  the  International 
Court  of  Justice ;  and  its  duties  shall  be  to 
preserve  international  peace,  enforce  the 
policy  of  the  International  Court  of  Justice 
and  be  under  its  direction.  In  addition  to 
the  foregoing,  each  nation  may  build  and 
maintain,  to  be  under  its  own  direction,  not 
to  exceed  one  armed  vessel  for  each  100 
miles  of  sea  coast  front,  for  police  duty  as 
against  smugglers  or  other  criminal  vio- 
lators of  its  national  laws,  but  no  such  ves- 
sel shall  be  built  at  an  expense  in  excess  of 
$100,000 ;  and  all  other  war  vessels  now  in 
existence  shall  be  disarmed,  dismantled  and 
destroyed  as  ships  of  war. 

4.  Each  nation  agrees  not  to  maintain 
factories  or  shipyards  within  its  territory, 
or  permit  the  same  to  be  maintained,  to 
manufacture  guns  or  other  implements  or 
munitions  of  war,  or  war  vessels,  of  a  total 
capacity,  respectively,  in  excess  of  the  re- 
quirements herein;  and  the  International 
Court  of  Justice  will  appoint  inspectors  to 
see  that  this  requirement  is  observed,  such 
inspectors  to  be  of  a  different  nationality  to 


110  THE  REMEDY 

that  of  the  nation  inspected.  And  in  this 
and  other  matters  pertaining  to  interna- 
tional peace  and  the  integrity  of  this  agree- 
ment, the  International  Court  of  Justice 
will  enforce  the  same. 

5.  An  International  Court  of  Justice 
is  herewith  provided  for,  to  consist,  from 
nations  having  a  population  of  75  million 
or  more,  five  members;  50  to  75  million, 
three  members ;  25  to  50  million,  two  mem- 
bers ;  and  less  than  25  million  population, 
one  member ;  to  be  appointed  by  each  na- 
tion every  four  years  in  such  manner  as  its 
constituted  authority  may  direct,  with 
power  to  recall  and  to  fill  vacancies.  The 
International  Court  of  Justice  shall  have 
power  to  establish  its  own  parliamentary 
rules  and  a  code  of  procedure  for  all  mat- 
ters before  it;  and  will  annually  appoint 
the  commodore  or  admiral  in  command  of 
the  international  fleet.  No  such  officer 
shall  succeed  himself,  and  his  successor 
shall  be  a  citizen  of  another  nation.  It 
will  meet,  first,  at  The  Hague,  in  Holland, 
within  thirty  days  after  the  ratification  of 
this  agreement  by  nations  representing  two- 
thirds  of  the  population  of  the  world,  and 
annually  change  its  place  of  meeting,  not 
remaining  in  session  two  consecutive  years 
in  any  one  nation ;  and,  excepting  reason- 
able adjournments,  shall  remain  in  contin- 
uous session.  It  will  settle  all  disputes  be- 
tween nations  and  its  judgment  will  be 


THE  REMEDY  111 

final,  except  by  its  own  judgment  on  re- 
hearing. Its  naval  force  will  execute  its 
judgments,  and  if  additional  armed  force 
is  necessary,  it  will  appoint  a  commander- 
in-chief  and  call  upon  one  or  more  nations 
for  armed  land  forces  to  compel  obedience 
to  its  decisions.  It  will  fix  the  number  and 
class  of  all  implements  of  war  used  by  the 
standing  armies  of  nations,  proportionate 
in  number  used  to  the  proportion  of  armed 
men  hereinbefore  provided  for. 

6.  However,  the  International  Court 
of  Justice  will  observe  and  be  bound  by  the 
following  principles  and  limitations :  (A) 
To  each  nation  will  be  left,  solely,  the  re- 
sponsibility and  authority  for  its  internal 
policy,  except  as  to  its  armed  force  pro- 
vided for  herein,  and  the  International 
Court  of  Justice  will  have  nothing  what- 
ever to  do  therewith ;  but  in  case  of  rebel- 
lion or  revolutionary  factions  in  any  na- 
tion, or  a  question  as  to  where,  or  in  whom 
the  sovereign  power  of  a  nation  is  vested,  on 
request  of  either  faction,  or  on  its  own  mo- 
tion, the  Court  may  appoint  one  or  more 
peace  commissioners  to  investigate  the 
cause  of  the  disturbance  and  to  try  to  bring 
about  a  reconciliation.  (B)  When  a  citi- 
zen of  one  nation  gets  in  personal  or  prop- 
erty trouble  in  another  nation,  he  is  sub- 
ject, solely,  to  the  laws  of  that  nation  in 
which  he  has  placed  his  person  and  prop- 
erty, and  aside  from  the  friendly  interven- 


112  THE  REMEDY 

tion  of  the  diplomatic  agents  of  his  home 
nation  and  friendly  interests  of  others, 
there  will  be  no  remedy  for  assumed  inju- 
ries unless  it  be  presented  to  the  Court  by 
the  nation  feeling  aggrieved,  and  only  then 
where  it  is  an  aggravated  case.  (C)  It  is 
recommended  that  land  titles,  in  each  na- 
tion, be  confined  to  its  own  citizens,  native 
and  naturalized,  and  that  people  of  one  na- 
tion not  intending  to  change  their  alle- 
giance, do  not  attempt  to  establish  their 
homes  or  business  in  another  nation,  except 
for  temporary  purposes  —  this  with  a  view 
to  harmony  among  the  citizens  of  each  na- 
tion ;  but  visiting  and  touring  is  encouraged 
that  the  people  of  each  nation  may  see  and 
study  the  progress  being  made  in  civiliza- 
tion by  the  people  of  other  nations.  (D) 
The  debt  of  a  nation  and  of  any  of  its  peo- 
ple to  another  nation,  or  to  the  people  of 
any  other  nation,  will  not  warrant  or  au- 
thorize the  seizure  of  custom  houses  of  the 
debtor  nation  or  any  forcible  method  of 
collection  except  through  the  courts  of  the 
debtor  nation  and  in  conformity  to  its  laws, 
except  as  hereinafter  provided.  It  is  not 
intended  that  the  independence  and  integ- 
rity of  a  nation  is  to  be  threatened  or  de- 
stroyed by  reason  of  debt.  A  national  debt 
is  a  debt  of  honor  except  as  it  may  be  col- 
lected through  its  sovereign,  constituted  au- 
thority. (E)  Each  nation  as  it  now  ex- 
ists, is  to  be  held  inviolate  and  protected  in 


THE  REMEDY  113 

its  territorial  integrity,  except  as  it  may  be 
changed  by  the  people  within  the  respective 
boundaries ;  boundary  line  disputes  will  be 
a  matter  for  settlement  by  the  International 
Court  of  Justice.  No  act  or  decree  of  the 
International  Court  of  Justice  shall  work  to 
destroy  the  sovereignty  of  a  nation  as  the 
supreme  power  within  its  boundaries.  (F) 
In  case  of  rebellion  or  revolution  within  a 
nation,  or  other  good  cause  shown,  the  In- 
ternational Court  of  Justice,  upon  applica- 
tion made,  may  permit  such  nation  to  tem- 
porarily increase  its  army  for  such  purpose 
only.  With  these  limitations,  all  other 
powers  to  enforce  peace  and  settle  interna- 
tional disputes  are  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  International  Court  of  Justice. 

7.  No  nation  shall  invade  another  na- 
tion with  armed  force,  except  on  demand 
and  by  authority  of  the  International  Court 
of  Justice  to  enforce  its  decrees,  and  if  it  do 
so  without  such  authority,  the  Interna- 
tional Court  of  Justice  will  immediately 
summons  the  armed  force  of  all  other  na- 
tions, or  as  many  of  them  as  may  be  neces- 
sary, to  summarily  repel  and  drive  back  the 
armed  force  of  such  nation  into  its  own  ter- 
ritory, before  hearing  or  determining  any 
questions  arising  thereoutof. 

8.  "WTien  the  International  Court  of 
Justice  has  awarded  judgment  against  a 
nation,  in  a  case  for  settlement  before  it, 
and  has  fixed  an  amount  in  money  for  it  to 


114  THE  REMEDY 

pay  as  a  penalty  or  indemnity,  it  will,  if 
necessary,  to  enforce  payment,  seize  the 
custom  houses  of  such  nation,  or  use  such 
other  forcible  means  as  may  be  necessary 
to  collect  the  same.  And  when  it  is  deemed 
necessary  to  maintain  order  and  peace,  it 
may  establish  an  armed  border  patrol  be- 
tween two  or  more  nations. 

9.  Each  nation  will  pay  the  personal 
expense  of  its  member  or  members  of  the 
International  Court  of  Justice;  and  each 
nation  will  pay  its  pro  rata  part  of  the  ex- 
pense incurred  in  common. 

10.  This  agreement  to  be  in  force 
upon  its  ratification  by  nations  represent- 
ing two-thirds  of  the  population  of  the 
world. 

Within  twelve  months  from  the  time  the 
agreement  was  signed  by  the  members  of 
the  convention,  all  the  nations  had  ratified 
it,  except  three,  that  later  hastened  to  do 
so.  The  clause  guaranteeing  the  territorial 
integrity  of  each  nation  as  against  the  ag- 
gression of  other  nations  was  one  of  its 
most  popular  clauses. 

Thus  was  a  movement  started  that  was 
to  grow  stronger,  year  by  year,  relieving  an 
anxiety  in  each  nation  that  had  theretofore 
made  necessary  an  enormous  burthen  in 
maintaining  a  military  force  to  meet  an  an- 
ticipated force  from  without,  a  system  that 
made  certain  ultimate  hostile  encounter. 


THE  EEMEDY  115 

Henceforward,  the  ambitions  of  men 
were  to  be  along  the  lines  of  peace;  the 
study  and  advancement  of  mankind,  in 
which  nations  might  vie  with  each  other; 
and  the  promotion  of  great  races  of  peo- 
ple, vying,  too,  with  each  other  in  the  solu- 
tion of  the  problems  of  civilization.  This 
was  the  new  current  of  thought,  of  events 
and  progressive  spirit,  in  which  selfish  and 
sordid  ambitions  sank  like  lead  sinkers,  dis- 
appearing beneath  the  surface. 

And  how  has  this  new  movement  fared 
here  in  the  United  States? 

Character  building  was  soon  being  uni- 
versally taught.  A  new  Congress  that  met 
March  4th,  1919,  showed  a  vast  improve- 
ment in  character  over  former  congresses. 
Appropriations  for  the  different  depart- 
ments of  government  provided  for  by  form- 
er congresses,  had  been  reduced  by  over 
three  hundred  million  dollars,  notwith- 
standing a  new  class  of  appropriations 
made,  which  were  to  affect,  favorably,  the 
prosperity,  welfare  and  happiness  of  the 
people. 

It  provided  for  a  loving  cup,  weighing 
four  pounds,  to  be  given  to  the  boy  or  girl 
under  twenty-one  years  of  age,  in  each  coim- 
ty  in  all  the  states,  for  the  Ijest  essay  or 
composition  of  500  words  or  less,  on  Char- 
acter Building.    Each  cup  to  be  sent  to  the 


116  THE  REMEDY 

one  winning  it,  in  each  county,  accompanied 
by  a  letter  signed  by  the  President  of  the 
United  States.  Methods  of  judging  and  all 
details  were  provided  for  in  the  bill.  Thus 
was  national  sanction  and  impetus  given 
to  an  educational  movement  to  prepare  the 
people  for  their  self-advancement.  The 
contest  was  a  memorable  one  and  attracted 
general  attention  from  the  day  of  its  an- 
nouncement to  the  day  of  the  delivery  of 
the  cups ;  and  universally  called  the  atten- 
tion of  the  people  to  the  subject  of  character 
building. 

Good  Eoads 

The  same  congress  appropriated  one 
hundred  million  dollars  each,  for  two  years, 
for  building  a  system  of  roads  in  the  United 
States,  under  the  direction  of  the  govern- 
ment engineers,  and  all  subsequent  con- 
gresses have  continued  this  appropriation. 
As  a  result,  at  an  average  cost  of  five  thou- 
sand dollars  per  mile,  twenty  thousand 
miles  of  well  graded  and  macadamized 
pikes  have  since  been  made  each  year,  giv- 
ing us  at  the  present  time  three  hundred 
thousand  miles  of  national  turnpikes,  for 
which  ten  million  dollars  each  year  is  now 
being  appropriated  for  maintenance.  This 
is  in  addition  to  the  expenditures  by  the 
states  for  roads,  averaging  each,  three  mil- 


THE  REMEDY  117 

lion  dollars  annually ;  and  the  United  States 
now  has,  in  quality  and  mileage,  the  finest 
system  of  roads  in  the  world,  totaling  eight 
hundred  thousand  miles  of  fine  macadam- 
ized roads,  built  in  fifteen  years.  And 
these  amounts  appropriated  by  congress 
and  the  legislatures  have  been  more  than 
saved  from  expenditures  that  had  been  for- 
merly made  in  a  reckless,  unbusinesslike, 
extravagant  and,  often,  corrupt  manner  of 
handling  public  money.  It  soon  became 
known  that  the  people  did  not  object  to  the 
expenditure  of  public  money  when  it  could 
be  seen  that  it  was  doing  them  great  good. 

Thus,  in  fifteen  years,  there  has  been 
scattered  among  the  farmers,  who  mainly 
furnished  the  labor,  and  among  the  people 
of  the  interior,  three  billion,  seven  hundred 
and  fifty  million  dollars,  where  the  circula- 
tion of  money  does  the  most  good  in  ad- 
vancing civilization — multiplying  homes  in 
the  country,  the  trend  of  population  follow- 
ing the  flow  of  money.  It  has  made  farm- 
ing more  profitable  and  popular  and  added 
to  the  charm  and  comfort  of  country  life, 
drawing  tens  of  thousands  away  from  the 
crowded  tenement  quarters  of  the  cities, 
adding  to  the  rural  population  where  sun- 
shine and  fresh  air  are  contributing  to 
health  and  happiness.  As  population  had 
followed  money  to  the  congested  centers. 


118  THE  REMEDY 

it  is  now  following  it  into  the  country.  It 
has,  as  computed  in  the  agricultural  depart- 
ment of  the  government,  been  a  saving  to 
the  farmers  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  mil- 
lion dollars,  annually,  in  the  cost  of  market- 
ing farm  products. 

And  this  was  money  that  had  previously 
been  spent  mainly  in  navy  yards,  on  armies 
and  in  cities,  congesting  population,  em- 
barrassing health  and  happiness,  with  un- 
wholesome environments  for  children. 

The  last  congress  has  provided  for  a 
canal  connecting  Lake  Superior  with  the 
Mississippi  River  that  will  make  certain  a 
boating  stage  of  water  in  that  great  tribu- 
tary at  all  times  of  the  year,  with  locks  to 
shut  off  the  lake  water  in  times  of  flood ;  and 
has  declared  its  policy  to  build  a  like  canal 
connecting  Lake  Erie  and  Lake  Michigan, 
and  one  across  the  northern  neck  of  Florida. 
Internal  improvements  of  this  nature,  it 
was  found,  had  been  amply  provided  for  in 
the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  mak- 
ing it  lawful  for  congress  to  build  roads  and 
canals. 

In  1920,  the  ten-year  period  of  reappor- 
tionment of  members  of  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives, that  body  was  reduced  ninety 
in  number,  making  it  more  practical  as  a 
deliberative  body. 


THE  REMEDY  119 

National  Institution  of  Science 

In  1923,  a  bill  was  introduced  and  passed 
both  houses  of  congress,  establishing  our 
National  Institution  of  Science,  for  scien- 
tific research  and  promotion  of  health  and 
prolonging  life,  that  is  now  making  discov- 
eries that  are  astounding  the  world.  The 
legislatures  of  the  states  co-operated  and, 
by  authority  of  laws  enacted,  from  convicts 
in  the  penitentiaries,  the  National  Institu- 
tion of  Science  selected  men  sentenced  for 
a  term  of  years  for  harmless  experiments, 
and  men  sentenced  to  die,  for  dangerous 
experiments.  The  corps  of  scientific  men 
in  the  institution  went  to  work  with  a  zeal 
and  ambition,  unequaled  in  its  scope,  bene- 
fiting the  human  race. 

Its  work  was  not  confined  to  results  to 
be  obtained  from  experiments  with  con- 
victs, this  opportunity  given  to  science  be- 
ing one,  only,  of  the  avenues  opened  to  it. 
Its  advantages,  however,  among  many,  were 
examining  and  selecting  from  the  prison 
inmates  those  sentenced  for  years,  who,  un- 
like private  patients,  were  absolutely  at 
their  disposal,  to  be  dieted,  eat  and  drink 
as  it  was  given  to  them,  and  the  condition 
and  work  of  each  organ  of  the  human  body 
observed,  before,  during  and  after  diges- 
tion, by  the  eye  of  science  through  power- 


120  THE  EEMEDY 

fill  electric  rays.  This  and  many  otlier 
methods,  opening  up  infinite  research,  were 
thus  made  practical  and  possible.  Those 
sentenced  to  death  opened  up  other  avenues 
of  research  and  examination  where  dan- 
gerous experiments  were  made. 

The  Institution  of  Science  became  popu- 
lar with  the  prison  inmates.  Those  selected 
for  harmless  experiments  were  made  com- 
fortable, had  the  freedom  of  the  grounds, 
were  given  congenial  work,  sport  and  other 
exercise  and,  more  or  less,  they  took  a  deep 
interest  in  the  purpose  and  object  of  the 
Institution,  some  of  them  becoming  in- 
ternes, assistants,  to  the  scientific  men. 
Those  under  death  penalty,  selected  for 
dangerous  experiments,  feel  that  they  have 
a  chance  and  their  execution  postponed. 
Hence,  the  National  Institution  of  Science 
for  promoting  health  and  the  prolongation 
of  life,  became  popular  with  the  subjects 
upon  whom  the  experiments  by  scientists 
are  being  made. 

Hundreds  have  been  cured  of  diseases, 
discoveries  of  importance  have  followed 
and  in  1932,  it  was  officially  announced  that 
the  cure  of  tuberculosis,  the  white  plague, 
was  discovered  beyond  a  doubt;  a  discov- 
ery, that  has  since  given  health  and  happi- 
ness to  hundreds  of  thousands  throughout 
the  world. 


THE  EEMEDY  121 

That  inventions  and  discoveries  have  no 
limitation,  and  that  all  things  desirable  are 
possible,  is  now  generally  believed ;  the  de- 
sire, created  by  this  new  era,  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  human  race,  has  quick- 
ened inventive  genius  in  a  thousand  private 
laboratories  and  no  item  of  news,  as  chron- 
icled in  the  daily  papers,  ranks  higher  than 
discoveries  and  events  bearing  on  health 
and  prolongation  of  life. 

Eugenics 

Co-extensive  with  the  absorbing  interest 
taken  by  the  people  in  this  field  of  activity, 
is  the  work  and  study  of  Eugenics — how  to 
create  a  better  human  race  by  regulating 
marriages  and  discouraging  the  birth  of 
children  inheriting  criminal  characters  and 
organic  diseases. 

The  discovery  made  that  by  a  simple  and 
harmless  operation,  the  power  to  aid  in  con- 
ception could  be  taken  from  either  a  man 
or  a  woman,  without  taking  away  in  the 
least  the  pleasure  and  happiness  of  con- 
jugal life,  was  the  basis  of  a  movement  now 
assuming  concrete  form  and  organization. 
It  is  growing  intensely  popular,  owing  to 
the  now,  almost,  universal  desire  to  im- 
prove on  and  perfect  the  human  race.  Many 
husbands  and  wives  who  recognize  their  im- 
perfections, in  one  or  more  respects,  are 


122  THE  REMEDY 

voluntarily  applying  to  be  made  immune. 
The  study  of  Eugenics  is  having  its  influ- 
ence on  those  healthy  in  mind  and  body  in 
the  selection  of  a  mate  in  marriage,  and 
laws  encouraging  it  are  being  enacted. 

When  a  couple  is  now  joined  in  wedlock, 
each  possessing  fine  character  and  physical 
stature,  it  is,  instinctively,  in  the  minds  of 
all  present,  that  the  progeny  of  such  a  pair 
will  be  a  step  forward  in  the  making  of  a 
better  race  of  men  and  women.  Henceforth, 
there  will  be  no  fears  as  to  an  overcrowded 
population  in  the  world,  and  the  character 
of  the  population  will  continue  to  improve. 

Economic  Legislation 

Great  progress  has  been  made  in  eco- 
nomic legislation.  Laws  have  been  enacted 
in  all  the  states  placing  a  limitation  on  cov- 
etousness;  and  men  who  have  ability  for 
easily  acquiring  wealth  are  giving  much 
of  their  time  and  surplus  wealth  to  those 
things  that  assist  in  advancing  civilization. 
A  few  have  always  done  so,  but  now  the 
number  thus  prompted  is  a  multitude. 

A  Theme  of  Interest 

The  growth  and  progress  of  civilization, 
with  all  its  possibilities,  is  now  an  engross- 
ing theme  of  interest  to  an  industrious,  self- 
reliant  and  prosperous  people.    Envy  and 


THE  REMEDY  123 

jealousy  and  a  desire  to  have  more  than 
an  ample  competency  are  disappearing 
from  the  human  character  and  being  re- 
placed by  an  ambition  to  promote  the  com- 
mon good  and  a  curiosity  and  desire  as  to 
what  the  future  holds  in  store  for  the  indefi- 
nite extension  of  life  in  health  and  happi- 
ness. 

The  daily  papers  bring  news  from  all 
parts  of  the  world,  telling  us  of  the  hap- 
penings, commercial  and  industrial,  and 
giving  market  reports,  but  the  big  headlines 
and  leading  news  of  interest  are  of  events 
having  a  bearing  on  and  relating  to  the 
progress  of  the  new  civilization.  The  in- 
formation, as  it  is  annually  given,  on  crimes, 
suicides,  insanity,  tenantry  and  divorces,  is 
noted  with  eager  interest  and  compared 
with  receding  years  in  the  past,  showing  a 
rapid  decrease  in  them  all. 

A  great  change  has  come  to  the  citizen- 
ship of  the  United  States  in  those  twenty 
years.  Patriotism  was  once  the  expression 
of  false  pride  and  vain  boasting.  It  was 
the  howl  of  the  dog  as  it  pursued  the  wolf. 
Now  it  expresses  civic  virtue  —  conscious 
pride,  in  the  relation  of  one 's  nation  to  the 
civilization  of  the  world. 

Commerce  continues  with  its  bustle  and 
busy  life  as  the  products  of  the  earth  and 
the  factory  find  their  way  to  the  consumers, 


124  THE  EEMEDY 

giving  mental  and  physical  employment,  but 
here,  there  and  everywhere,  uppermost  in 
the  minds  of  all,  is  the  thought  that  by  col- 
lective effort  a  civilization  is  in  progress 
that  leads  onward  and  upward  with  infinite 
possibilities. 

In  1923  the  International  Court  of  Jus- 
tice recommended  that  the  nations  appoint 
delegates  to  an  international  convention  to 
meet,  annually,  at  the  date  of  the  beginning 
of  the  official  year  for  the  International 
Court,  and  at  the  place  and  in  the  nation 
where  the  International  Court  of  Justice 
would  remain  for  the  year. 

The  agreement  of  nations  had  provided 
that  the  International  Court  should,  annu- 
ally, change  its  place  of  meeting  to  another 
nation ;  and  to  add  to  the  influence  and  har- 
mony that  this  had  in  view,  it  was  recom- 
mended later,  that  at  the  annual  period  for 
opening  the  court,  delegates  from  all  the 
nations  should  meet  in  convention,  bringing 
reports  fresh  from  the  people  of  the  prog- 
ress of  civilization  in  their  respective  na- 
tions ;  and  the  recommendation  of  the  Inter- 
national Court  of  Justice  was  adopted. 

These  conventions  have  had  a  great  in- 
fluence for  good  and  the  members  of  the 
International  Court  of  Justice  have  been 
present  at  each  session  and  deeply  inter- 
ested iu  what  they  heard.  Delegates  become 


THE  REMEDY  125 

acquainted  with  each  other,  information 
is  exchanged,  suggestions  made,  the  spirit 
and  aspirations  of  the  movement  sounded 
in  words  of  eloquence  again  and  again,  giv- 
ing new  birth,  as  it  were,  to  the  movement 
from  year  to  year.  And  all  that  is  said 
and  done  at  these  conventions  is  reported 
verbatim  and  appears  in  the  press  of  the 
world,  thus  bringing  all  in  touch  and  mak- 
ing it,  indeed,  a  world's  convention  and  ex- 
position of  the  best  thoughts  of  mankind. 

The  good  effects  of  these  conventions, 
however,  are  greatest  on  the  people  of  the 
nation  where  the  convention  is  at  the  time 
in  session.  The  newspapers  of  that  nation 
can  handle  it  best  and  cheapest;  and  its 
nearness  to  the  people  brings  home  to  them 
more  forcibly  its  value  and  importance. 
So,  that  changing  each  year  to  another  im- 
portant nation,  gives  a  local  value  to  the 
influence  of  the  convention  in  the  nation  in 
which  it  meets. 

And  now  it  is  this  convention,  its 
eleventh  session,  that  is  assembling  in 
Washington  and  the  world  will  hear  again 
from  all  portions  of  the  earth  the  progress 
of  the  new  civilization  and  its  hopes  and 
aspirations  for  the  future. 

The  hall  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives has  been  prepared  to  receive  the  con- 
vention and  is  beautifully  and  appropri- 


126  THE  REMEDY 

ately  decorated,  including  the  shields  of  all 
the  nations.  Behind  the  informal  platform 
prepared  for  the  Chairman  and  speakers, 
on  canvas,  artistically  framed,  in  letters 
large  enough  to  be  easily  read  from  any 
portion  of  the  room,  are  the  words  of  Fred- 
erick Lawrence  Knowles : 

When  navies  are  forgotten 
And  fleets  are  useless  things, 
When  the  dove  shall  warm  her  bosom 
Beneath  the  eagle's  wings ; 

When  memory  of  battles 
At  last  is  strange  and  old 
When  nations  have  one  banner 
And  foes  have  found  one  fold ; 

When  the  Hand  that  sprinkles  midnight 
With  its  powdered  drift  of  suns 
Has  hushed  this  tiny  tumult 
Of  armies,  swords  and  guns ; 

Then  Hate's  last  note  of  discord 
In  all  God's  world  shall  cease, 
In  the  conquest  which  is  service, 
In  the  victory  which  is  peace ! 


CHAPTER  VII 

Feasibility  of  the  Movement 

I  AM  aware  of  the  fact  that  it  is  often 
true  that  one  conceives  an  impractical 
idea,  or  an  idea  founded  on  false  prem- 
ises, and  encourages  it  to  develop  and  grow 
in  his  mind  till  he  can  see  no  error  in  it. 
Wishing  to  eliminate  the  possibility  of  this 
in  this  instance,  I  have  been  cautious  in 
balancing  my  judgment  and  in  testing  my 
analysis  of  the  subject. 

In  testing  my  judgment  I  have  experi- 
mented with  the  education  treated  herein. 
I  have  gone  before  many  schools  and  lec- 
tured to  the  pupils  for  about  twenty  min- 
utes on  character  building  along  the  line  of 
the  subjects  treated  in  the  school  booklet 
printed  in  this  edition,  and  each  time  have 
had  absolute  attention.  While  speaking, 
each  time,  one  could  have  heard,  as  it  were, 
a  pin  drop,  so  quiet  and  attentive  were  the 
pupils,  showing  their  interest  in  the  subject. 

Several  times  on  these  occasions  grown 
people,  including  parents  of  some  of  the 
pupils,  were  present  and  personally  thanked 
me  and  expressed  their  appreciation  for 
what  I  had  said.  On  one  occasion  I  had 
gone  to  a  country  community  to  address  the 
128 


THE  REMEDY  129 

people  on  another  subject.  The  school- 
house  had  been  selected  as  the  place  for  me 
to  speak  and  the  school  was  in  session,  it  re- 
cessing for  my  address.  At  my  request, 
the  pupils  remained  in  the  room  and  I  began 
by  first  addressing  them  for  twenty  minutes 
on  character  building.  At  the  close  of  my 
speech,  which  followed,  many  men  and 
women  in  the  audience  said  to  me  that  what 
I  had  said  to  the  school  children  was  better 
than  my  speech. 

Being  invited  to  address  the  constitu- 
tional convention  of  Oklahoma,  I  organized 
a  class  of  ten  boys  in  the  Logan  County 
High  School,  the  county  which  the  city  of 
Guthrie  is  in,  and  trained  them  for  a  few 
days  in  character  building  and  took 
them  before  the  convention,  putting  them 
through  a  drill  or  character  exercise,  and 
at  the  conclusion,  the  audience  applauded 
the  boys  long  and  continuously,  greatly 
pleased  and  forming  into  groups,  discuss- 
ing the  subject  as  the  meeting  adjourned. 
As  the  boys  trained,  mainly  under  a  captain, 
one  of  their  number,  they  became  very  much 
interested.  On  the  morning  of  the  night 
the  convention  assembled  to  hear  me,  I  was 
in  Oklahoma  City  and  phoned  the  boys  to 
meet  me  at  7 :00  p.  m.  at  a  certain  office  in 
Guthrie,  that  I  might  take  them  through  a 
rehearsal  to  test  their  efficiency.    On  the 


130  THE  REMEDY 

arrival  of  my  train  at  Guthrie,  at  5 :00  p.  m., 
the  boys  all  met  me  at  the  depot,  cordially 
greeted  me  as  I  got  otf  the  train  and  accom- 
panied me  to  the  place  I  had  appointed  for 
meeting  them. 

There,  we  went  through  the  drill  and  I 
found  them  perfectly  prepared.  A  young 
lady  present,  as  we  finished  said  to  me, 
' '  That  is  the  best  thing  I  ever  heard, ' ' 

At  my  request,  I  was  permitted  to  ad- 
dress the  pupils  of  the  high  school  in  Fort 
Smith,  Arkansas,  where  they  have  one  of 
the  finest  high  school  buildings,  probably, 
west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  being  cau- 
tioned by  the  superintendent  that  he  could 
give  me  only  twenty  minutes.  The  meeting 
was  in  the  chapel,  at  the  morning  hour  for 
the  school  to  begin,  with  the  faculty  on  the 
platform  and  several  hundred  pupils  in  the 
room.  I  was  again  cautioned  as  to  my  time 
limit.  The  pupils  gave  me  what  appeared 
to  be  absorbing  attention  and  as  I  con- 
cluded, in  just  twenty  minutes,  the  superin- 
tendent told  me  I  could  take  more  time  if  I 
wanted  to,  all  the  teachers  expressed  appre- 
ciation and  one  of  the  faculty  said  to  me 
that  it  was  the  most  interesting  subject  that 
he  had  ever  heard  discussed. 

I  am  living  at  present  in  the  Ozark 
mountains  at  Monte  Ne,  Arkansas,  and  the 
experiments  I  have  made  have  been  at 


THE  REMEDY  131 

places  convenient  to  me,  but  hiunan  nature 
is  the  same  everywhere. 

A  few  years  ago  I  had  10,000  copies  of 
a  little  booklet  printed,  substantially  the 
same  as  the  one  printed  herein  between 
pages  57  and  88,  except  that  it  had  no  illus- 
trations, and  distributed  them,  mainly,  in 
this  and  adjoining  counties.  I  have  had  let- 
ters from  many  people  commending  it,  some 
from  as  far  away  as  the  New  England 
states  and,  personally,  many  expressions  of 
appreciation,  including  school  teachers. 

In  many  of  the  letters  I  am  asked  where 
the  booklet  can  be  obtained,  it  having  no 
publisher  and  not  being  on  sale.  Among 
the  letters  recently  received,  is  one  from 
John  J.  Maddox,  principal  of  the  Blow 
School,  in  Saint  Louis,  Missouri,  and  one 
from  Mr.  K.  T.  Byrd,  a  teacher  at  Fayette- 
ville,  Arkansas,  both  wanting  to  know  where 
they  could  secure  more  copies  of  the  booklet. 
The  one  from  Mr.  Byrd  says,  **I  have  read 
the  little  booklet,  entitled  Character  Build- 
ing. I  think  it  is  worth  its  weight  in  gold. 
I  have  had  several  persons  to  tell  me  that 
they  Ve  been  helped  by  reading  and  study- 
ing the  booklet.  I  am  using  it  in  my  chapel 
exercise  *  *  *  j  expect  to  see  whole- 
some results  by  the  end  of  the  school  year. 
In  my  opinion  the  booklet  is  really  indis- 
pensable in  school  work    *     *     *     Charac- 


132  THE  REMEDY 

ter  forms  the  basis  of  all  true  education.** 
Mr.  Byrd  does  not  know  that  I  am  writ- 
ing this  book  or  that  I  am  using  this  extract 
from  his  letter.  I  find  that  many  of  the 
teachers  in  the  free  schools  who  would  like 
to  use  the  booklet  are  waiting  for  word  from 
their  superintendents. 


ORGANIZATION 


CHAPTER  VIII 

ORGANIZATION  is  necessary  to  pro- 
mote education,  especially  the  edu- 
tion  proposed.  The  necessity  of 
organization  to  make  a  success  of  a  busi- 
ness or  anything  requiring  promotion  is 
well  known  and  realized  by  all  successful 
men. 

To  write  a  book  on  the  subject  of  char- 
acter building,  have  it  published  and  take 
the  ordinary  channel  for  circulation  of 
books,  no  matter  how  forcefully  or  attrac- 
tively written,  with  no  organization  behind 
it  to  accelerate  its  circulation,  or  to  put  into 
practice  its  teachings,  would  fall  far  short 
of  what  is  now  necessary  to  meet  an  emer- 
gency. 

Such  a  book,  such  teachings,  with  no  or- 
ganization behind  it,  would  secure  for  itself 
little  more  than  an  average  circulation  for 
books,  would  be  discussed  for  a  time,  create 
a  favorable  impression  with  those  who  read 
it  and  then  be  forgotten  in  the  strife  for 
existence  and  in  the  commercial  fever  to 
have  and  to  possess.  It  would  not  reach  a 
sufficient  number  of  the  people  and  its  rec- 
ommendation for  teaching  the  rising  gen- 
eration would  be  slow  in  its  application  and 
so  indifferently  applied  the  catastrophe  of 
135 


136  THE  REMEDY 

a  civilization  overthrown  would  be  upon  us 
when  too  late  to  apply  a  remedy. 

With  supercilious  egotism  and  false 
pride  we  view  the  strife  in  Mexico  as  one 
from  which  we  are  immune,  when,  in  fact, 
the  same  causes  are  at  work  with  us  to 
"Mexicanize"  the  United  States, —  threat- 
ening, for  us,  domestic  revolution,  the  loss 
of  resjject  for  and  the  overthrow  of  our  civil 
institutions,  the  confiscation  of  the  property 
of  the  rich  and  a  reign  of  blood  and  anarchy 
for  all ;  placing  us  in  a  position  where  it  will 
be  impossible  to  extricate  ourselves.  With 
the  increase  in  poverty  and  tenantry,  the 
minds  of  the  people  thus  effected,  influenced 
by  the  ostentatious  luxury  and  vanity  of 
the  rich  few,  revolutionary  anarchy  with  all 
its  horrors  will  come  with  the  same  cer- 
tainty as  the  lighted  fuse  reaches  the  dyna- 
mite. And  when  it  comes,  if  permitted  to 
come,  it  will  be  too  late, —  the  opportunity 
for  an  educational  remedy  will  have  passed. 

The  opportunities  for  making  an  inde- 
pendent citizenship  are  decreasing  and  the 
number  of  the  dependent  are  gradually  in- 
creasing with  nature  as  bountiful  as  it  ever 
was.  And  when  we  take  into  consideration 
man's  improved  knowledge  for  cultivating 
the  soil  and  his  inventions  for  more  easily 
manufacturing  raw  materials  into  useful 
and  finished  products,  nature  is  more  boun- 


THE  REMEDY  137 

tif ul  than  it  ever  was  and  our  facilities  for 
creating  and  establishing  an  independent 
citizenship  is  easier  and  more  accessible 
now  than  it  has  ever  been  in  the  past.  And 
yet,  today,  the  number  of  the  imemployed 
and  the  increase  of  poverty  and  tenantry  is 
staggering !  and  assuming  ugly  and  formi- 
dable proportions ! 

Which  leads  to  but  one  conclusion  and 
that  is  our  ignorance  in  knowing  how  to  put 
together  a  civilization.  And,  such  igno- 
rance has  been  produced  by  defects  in  hu- 
man character ;  —  defects  in  character  that 
have  made  us  lose  sight  of  the  common  good 
and  kept  us  from  the  knowledge  that  when 
acquired  will  lead  us  and  show  us  how  to 
construct  a  civilization  in  which  there  will 
be  opportunities  for  all  and  no  poverty  and 
no  crimes.  Hence,  the  one  great  necessity  is 
education  for  character  building  and  its  ap- 
plication to  the  construction  of  a  perfected 
civilization.  The  situation  is  now  so  seri- 
ous character  teaching  should  be  hurried, 
applied  promptly,  and  to  do  so,  the  help,  the 
speed  that  comes  with  organization  is  im- 
perative. 

To  those  who  are  advocating  a  remedy 
by  legislation  and  who  believe  that  their 
proposed  remedy  is  essential  before  tran- 
quility and  contentment  can  come,  I  would 
say,  character  training  must  precede  get- 


138  THE  REMEDY 

ting  an  intelligent  audience.  Any  legisla- 
tive remedy,  with  merit,  will  not  now  get 
a  fair  hearing.  Until  the  people,  a  ma- 
jority of  them,  possess  character  that  com- 
prehends the  importance  of  promoting  the 
common  good,  turmoil,  confusion  and  fail- 
ure will  attend  all  merited  efforts. 

Till  character  training  is  in  successful 
operation  all  attempts  at  a  remedy  by  legis- 
lation will  be  addressing  people  who  ''have 
eyes  and  will  not  see,  and,  ears  and  will  not 
hear."  It  is  all  right  for  those  seeking  a 
remedy  by  legislation  to  go  on  trying,  but  it 
seems  to  be  evident  that  we  are  now  walk- 
ing in  quicksand  and  will  be  until  character 
teaching  puts  a  solid  foundation  under  our 
feet.  Hence,  the  importance  of  organiza- 
tion and  co-operation  that  will  hasten  its 
coming.  There  can  be  no  objection  to  char- 
acter building  from  any  source  except  those 
who  would  ruthlessly  butcher  our  prospects 
of  a  better  civilization  to  add  to  their  imme- 
diate selfish  desires.  And,  organized  edu- 
cation will  check  their  rapacity  and  reach 
their  children. 

We  have  been  relying  too  much  on  legis- 
lation and  too  little  on  education.  We  have 
organized  education,  schools,  exceptionally 
advanced,  but  the  sole  aim  has  been  intel- 
lectual education  to  prepare  the  pupils  for 
a  business  life,  to  enter  the  various  channels 


THE  REMEDY  139 

of  production,  trade,  commerce,  professions 
and  business;  but  not  to  prepare  them,  to 
teach  them,  the  principles  in  character  by 
which  a  civilization  may  be  built  and  main- 
tained, by  which  Evil  may  become  extinct 
in  the  human  character  and  Good  univer- 
sally prevail.  And  the  want  of  it  now 
brings  us  face  to  face  with  an  enemy  trained 
in  the  destructive  forces  of  Evil  that  is  cre- 
ating distress  and  discontent  throughout 
the  world. 

Much  has  been  done  in  the  way  of  organ- 
ization to  promote  legislation.  It  exists  in 
all  the  political  parties,  each,  with  a  na- 
tional organization,  and,  each,  every  four 
years  spending  large  sums  of  money,  in 
some  instances  reaching  into  million  of  dol- 
lars. And,  numerous  minor  organizations, 
maintain  agents  at  the  capitals,  all,  at  much 
expense,  seeking  to  promote  legislation. 

To  promote  ''intellectual  education,** 
there  is  much  organization  and  tens  of  mil- 
lions of  dollars  spent,  annually.  This  in- 
cludes the  free  school  system  and  numerous 
private  schools  embracing  colleges  and 
academies.  It  was  announced  the  other 
day  in  a  press  dispatch  from  New  York  City, 
that  $10,500,000,  was  that  day  divided  there 
between  different  educational  institutions. 
Mr.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Sr.,  has  given  to 
the  Rockefeller  Foundation  one  hundred 


140  THE  REMEDY 

million  dollars,  the  annual  income  from 
which  $5,500,000  is  largely  used  to  promote 
"intellectual  education,"  by  sums  given  to 
colleges.  Among  its  recent  donations  is 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  to 
the  Wellesley  College.  I  get  these  facts 
and  figures  from  a  printed  leaflet  issued  by 
the  Rockefeller  Foundation  now  before  me. 
From  it  I  quote  the  following : 

"The  funds  of  the  Foundation,  all  of 
which  were  contributed  by  Mr.  John  D. 
Rockefeller,  consist  of  securities  the  mar- 
ket value  of  which  at  the  time  they  were 
donated  was  one  hundred  million  dollars. 
In  making  this  gift,  Mr.  Rockefeller  ex- 
pressly empowered  the  directors  of  the 
Foundation  in  their  discretion  to  utilize 
either  the  principal  or  the  income  or  both 
for  the  chartered  purposes  of  the  Founda- 
tion, namely,  to  promote  the  well  being  of 
mankind  throughout  the  world." 

Thus  we  fiind  that  organization,  state  and 
private,  is  at  work  with  money,  including 
the  taxing  power,  spending  tens  of  millions 
of  dollars,  annually,  on  "intellectual  edu- 
cation. '  *  And,  not  one  dollar  of  it  is  used 
for  any  method  of  education  in  character 
building ;  and  no  book  or  system  or  treatise 
for  education  in  character  training  is  used 
in  the  schools. 


THE  REMEDY  141 

In  education,  the  human  race  is  on  an 
unchartered  sea  without  a  compass.  "In- 
tellectual education"  has  promoted  suc- 
cess in  the  arts  and  sciences,  has  facilitated 
and  made  easy  the  conduct  of  business, 
given  mental  culture  to  a  few  and  has  in- 
creased the  facilities  of  a  few  who  wish  to 
do  good.  But  at  the  same  time  it  has  cor- 
respondingly increased  the  facilities  of 
those  who  wish  to  do  evil.  Character  has 
not  been  considered  a  subject  for  educa- 
tion;—  when,  in  fact,  it  is  easier  taught 
than  so-called  "intellectual  education"; 
and  infinitely  more  important.  Without  it, 
civilizations  will  follow  each  other  into  ob- 
livion, each  burnt  to  ashes  in  the  fires  of 
selfishness, —  in  the  wake  of  each,  the  cry  of 
distress  and  agony  of  untold  millions  of 
people. 

With  character  building  a  part  of  our 
educational  system,  handled  by  those  who 
are  in  sympathy  with  it  and  resourceful  in 
its  teaching,  a  vast  change  for  the  better 
must  soon  come  to  the  human  race.  It  will 
improve  the  character  of  teaching.  There 
will  be  more  teachers  who  will  love  their 
work, —  which  means  good  teachers;  and 
fewer  teachers  who  are  simply  teaching  to 
draw  a  salary, —  which  means  poor  teach- 
ers. There  will  be  a  new  meaning,  a  new 
interest,   given  to   education.    The   vital 


142  THE  REMEDY 

spark  of  a  new  life  will  inspire  the  human 
race;  and  onr  civilization  will  not  join  pre- 
historic civilizations  burnt  to  ashes  on  the 
pyre  of  human  selfishness  fed  by  the  fagots 
of  ignorance,  vanity  and  prejudices. 

To  accomplish  this  we  need  organiza- 
tion. To  finance  us,  we  do  not  need  the 
vast  sums  of  money  being  spent,  annually, 
on  "intellectual  education."  We  do  not 
need  $10,500,000,  the  sum  recently  dis- 
bursed in  New  York  City  from  private  con- 
tributions and  which  sum,  about,  is,  annu- 
ally, contributed  with  that  point  the  distrib- 
uting center.  We  do  not  need,  annually,  as 
much  as  the  $750,000  given  the  Wellesley 
College. 

We  will  later  discuss  the  practical  work 
to  be  accomplished  by  an  organization  pro- 
moting character  teaching,  and  from  that, 
my  estimate  of  the  sum  needed  is  $250,000 
for  the  first  year  after  permanent  organiza- 
tion is  established,  and,  about  $200,000,  an- 
nually, thereafter.  The  reader  will  see 
upon  what  I  am  basing  my  estimate  when 
we  discuss  in  the  next  chapter  the  system  of 
organization  required  to  accomplish  the  re- 
sult desired.  And  the  sum  needed  is,  com- 
paratively, a  small  sum  to  what  is  be- 
ing spent  on  "intellectual  education.*'  A 
larger  amount  than  $250,000,  to  begin,  would 
be  better,  but  that  sum  of  money  will  be  suf- 


THE  REMEDY  143 

ficient.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  contribu- 
tions of  an  average  of  $1,000  each,  will  make 
this  sum ;  and  2,500  contributions  averaging 
$100  each,  will  aggregate  the  $250,000.  It 
will  give  added  strength  to  the  movement 
that  it  is  founded  and  sustained  by  popular 
subscription  and  small  contributions  should 
be  accepted;  making  it  a  movement  of  the 
people  for  an  educational  Foundation  for 
promoting  character  teaching.  No  one 
man,  or  select  few,  should  be  permitted  to 
finance  this  organization. 

Fixed  Principles  of  the  Organization 

The  organization  that  takes  charge 
should  be  broad,  comprehensive  and  capable 
of  mastering  details.  It  should  confine 
itself  strictly  to  promoting  teaching  in  char- 
acter building  along  the  line  of  the  ten  sub- 
jects named,  taking  no  part  in  political  or 
religious  issues.  A  fundamental  law  of  the 
United  States  provides  for  the  separation 
of  church  and  state.  Hence,  it  will  be,  obvi- 
ously, in  bad  taste  and  improper  to  refer  to 
religion  in  any  of  its  forms,  in  a  book  or 
booklet  on  character  building  to  be  used  in 
the  public  schools. 

The  church  organizations  are  not  envi- 
ous of  this  principle  in  our  government. 
They  have  opportunity,  and,  ample  oppor- 
tunity by  sermons  and  in  Sunday  schools. 


144  THE  REMEDY 

each,  to  teach  character  as  reflected  and 
taught  by  the  textbooks  and  the  immortal 
examples  of  those  who  founded,  respec- 
tively, their  religions.  They  will  also  teach 
character  as  aided  by  religion  in  the  re- 
spective private  schools  in  their  charge. 
And,  we  recognize  the  great  assistance  that 
will  come  from  this  potential  source  to  bring 
ultimate  success. 

Emphasis  wants  to  be  laid  upon  one  of 
the  logical  elements  of  strength  this  move- 
ment possesses,  which  is :  If  we  succeed  in 
promoting  character  as  has  been  outlined, 
the  result  of  our  teachings  insures  good  citi- 
zenship, good  laws,  an  advancing  civiliza- 
tion and,  ultimately,  the  emancipation  of 
mankind  from  Evil ;  and  that  to  depart  from 
the  simple  teachings  of  character  building 
and  to  try  to  use  our  influence,  as  an  organ- 
ization, on  one  side  of  any  political,  re- 
ligious or  industrial  question  would  be  to 
injure  the  influence  of  the  organization  and 
retard  or  prevent  the  accomplishment  of  its 
purpose. 

It  should  invite  the  co-operation  of  the 
schools,  the  churches,  the  press,  literature 
and  other  agencies.  It  should  be  a  busi- 
nesslike organization  for  the  promotion  of 
teaching  in  character  building,  and,  utiliz- 
ing the  influence  and  assistance  of  all  organ- 
izations and  citizens  possible. 


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It  should  start  in  the  United  States  with 
a  general  office,  and,  later,  possibly  with  an 
office  in  each  state.  And  if  made  a  success 
in  the  United  States,  the  general  office  to  be 
a  world  office  with  a  branch  office  in  each 
nation. 

The  head  officers  of  the  organization 
should  have  nothing  whatever  to  do  with 
political  parties ;  and  its  chief  officer,  in  ad- 
dition to  this,  should  eschew  political  office 
for  life,  not  aspiring  thereto  while  holding 
such  office  nor  afterward.  One  of  the  ef- 
fects of  the  organization  is  intended  to  make 
thousands  of  men  able,  competent  and  wor- 
thy to  hold  public  office,  to  where  there  is 
one  now ;  and  the  chief  officer  directing  the 
work  of  character  building  will  be  doing 
more  good  where  he  is  than  if  he  could  mul- 
tiply himself  a  thousand  times  and  hold  that 
many  public  offices ;  and  for  him  to  aspire  to 
public  office  at  any  time  would  cast  distrust 
on  the  organization.  This  inhibition  should 
not  extend  to  any  one  of  the  other  officers  or 
those  working  in  the  ranks.  There,  each 
man  who  feels  that  he  has  mastered  the 
principles  of  character  building,  appreci- 
ates their  importance,  knows  that  upon  in- 
telligent collective  effort  depends  the  prog- 
ress of  civilization  and  feels  that  he  is  capa- 
ble of  filling  a  particular  office,  should  be 
willing  to  do  so  and  honorably  aspire  to  se- 


146  THE  REMEDY 

cure  it;  and  the  people  should  take  an 
active  interest  in  finding  such  men.  But 
the  central  officers,  heads  of  departments  of 
the  organization,  should  not  be  candidates 
for  public  offices ;  and  while  voting  as  they 
desire,  should  not  otherwise  side  with  or 
assist  any  of  the  political  parties. 

The  central  officers  and  all  others  from 
whom  continuous  work  is  needed  should 
give  all  their  time  and  have  no  other  work 
or  occupation  to  divert  their  minds;  and 
should  be  paid  sufficient  to  free  them  from 
want  and  care,  giving  them  ease  of  mind 
and  independence  from  relying  on  any 
other  vocation.  All  their  time,  genius  and 
enterprise  \vall  be  needed.  And  men  should 
be  selected  who  are  fitted  for  their  respect- 
ive duties. 

The  work  of  evil  influences  is  continuous. 
Vanity,  prejudice  and  selfishness  are  com- 
mitting their  daily  depredations ;  and  self- 
ishness serves  to  organize  and  combine  peo- 
ple for  their  mutual  selfish  benefit;  and 
when  an  epidemic  of  corruption  or  crime 
prevails,  the  people  have  heretofore  moved 
emotionally  to  combat  it  and  then  quieted 
down.  The  work  we  contemplate  should  be 
continuous  and  advantages  gained,  sus- 
tained, aiming  at  continuous  progress. 

In  undertaking  what  we  contemplate,  we 
should  realize  that  it  vdH  be  a  mistake  to 


THE  REMEDY  147 

underestimate  counter  influences.  It  is  far 
better  to  overestimate  the  difficulties  and  be 
ready  to  meet  more  opposition  than  is 
found,  for  in  that  event  the  victory  is  easier 
and  more  speedy.  But  if  the  opposing  dif- 
ficulties are  all  that  are  anticipated,  prepa- 
ration will  have  been  made  to  win  anyhow. 

For  securing  the  best  possible  results 
we  want  to  master  organization  as  adapted 
to  the  object  in  view  and  combine  genius  in 
versatile  resourcefulness  for  methods  in 
teaching  that  will  accomplish  the  object 
sought.  In  trying  to  make  good  that  "the 
victories  of  peace  are  greater  than  the  vic- 
tories of  war"  we  hope  to  marshal  an  army 
of  millions  that  will  not  be  limited  by  age  or 
sex,  inspired  by  music  and  songs  and  a  holy 
ambition  to  give  to  the  world  a  perfected 
ci\dlization. 

While  we  realize  that  our  success  with 
those  whose  habits  and  characters  are  al- 
ready set,  and,  in  a  measure,  fixed,  will  be 
only  partial,  those  under  age  whom  we  will 
reach  direct,  will  be  daily  coming  of  age  and 
rolling  in  a  vast  multitude  onto  the  scene  of 
activity  and  the  stage  of  action,  and  from 
these  we  will  hope  to  form  the  future  army 
of  peace  for  the  conquest  of  Evil. 


CHAPTER  IX 

Permanent  Organization 

WHEIsT  financed  and  permanent  or- 
ganization is  effected,  as  it  appears 
to  me,  the  movement  should  be  in 
charge  of  a  chief  executive  officer  and  the 
work  in  charge  of  six  departments. 
The  Family  Department. 
The  School  Department. 
The  Church  Department. 
The  Press  Department. 
The  Literary  Department. 
The  Treasury  Department. 
And  each  department  in  charge  of  a  sec- 
retary or  manager,  a  man  of  ability,  fully 
comprehending  what  is  expected  of  his  de- 
partment. 

The  Family  Department 

The  secretary  of  the  family  department 
will  have  charge  in  promoting  and  aiding 
home  work  in  training  the  characters  of  chil- 
dren. Among  his  many  pleasant  duties 
will  be  the  preparation  and  publication  of  a 
book  on  the  effect  of  the  disposition,  health 
and  character  of  the  mother  on  the  child  in 
the  foetuSf  the  unborn  child.  In  doing  so, 
he  can  invite  competition  from  authors  on 
148 


THE  REMEDY  149 

snch  a  book,  paying  a  premium  if  thought 
best,  to  the  one  whose  book  is  accepted. 
The  book  adopted,  to  be  promoted  by  us  and 
as  nearly  as  possible  gotten  into  the  hands 
of  all  wives. 

He  will  analyze  and  study  the  best  meth- 
ods of  the  home  training  of  children,  giving 
the  benefit  of  his  knowledge  acquired  to  all 
parents,  from  time  to  time,  by  a  printed 
treatise  on  the  subject.  His  study  of  char- 
acter training  will  begin  with  the  child  in 
the  cradle.  He  and  his  assistants,  among 
whom  will  be  mothers,  will  be  making  an  ex- 
haustive study  of  the  subject.  Experi- 
ments will  be  made,  and,  results  secured  re- 
ported to  his  department.  He  will  aim  to 
get  demonstrated  results  tending  to  take 
out  of  the  child,  as  early  as  possible,  the  evil 
traits  of  character  that  may  manifest  them- 
selves, and,  encourage  the  growth  of  healthy 
traits  of  character. 

His  researches  will  have  in  view  char- 
acter building,  aided  by  the  mental  and 
physical  health  of  the  child.  His  methods 
will  seek  to  aid  the  parents  in  making  home 
and  its  environments  popular  as  well  as  in- 
structive, and,  the  children  to  have  an  obe^ 
dient  and  high  regard  for  the  parents. 


150  THE  REMEDY 

The  School  Department 

The  sdiool  secretary  will  have  charge, 
promoting  the  teaching  of  character  build- 
ing in  the  schools.  We  will  adopt  a  school 
booklet  entitled  Character  Building,  free 
from  any  religious  or  political  objections, 
for  use  in  schools,  and  he  will  seek  to  get  the 
legislatures  to  provide  that  it  shall  be 
taught  in  the  public  schools.  This  will  set 
the  work  going  in  all  the  public  schools  in 
the  United  States ;  and  its  use  in  the  private 
schools  will  be  promoted. 

He  will  examine  one  of  each  class  of 
books  being  used  in  the  schools,  such  as 
spelling  books  and  readers,  with  a  view  to 
suggestions  and  seek  to  have  them  contain 
some  reading  matter  and  illustrations  that 
will  be  of  assistance  in  character  training. 
The  old  Blue  Back  Speller,  in  use  30  or  40 
years  ago,  had  a  little  of  this,  but  it  seems 
now  to  have  disappeared  from  the  school- 
books. 

In  the  legislation  asked  of  the  states  will 
be  the  request  that  character  building  be 
one  of  the  specialties  taught  in  the  State 
Normal  schools;  and  that  county  superin- 
tendents or  other  oflEicers  who  grant  certifi- 
cates to  men  and  women  to  teach  school, 
shall  not  grant  such  certificate  unless  the 
applicant  is  well  informed  on  the  subject  of 


THE  REMEDY  151 

character  building  and  proficient  in  how  it 
should  be  taught.  In  securing  state  legisla- 
tion, the  school  secretary  will  employ  an 
able  and  competent  man  to  go  to  each  state 
capital  and  understandingly  present  the 
matter  to  each  legislature. 

The  school  secretary  may  maintain  in 
each  state  one  or  more  experts  in  how  to 
teach  character  in  the  schools,  each  train- 
ing instructor  traveling  from  school  to 
school,  visiting  each,  as  often  as  one  time 
during  the  year,  first  calling  on  the  teacher 
and  going  over  the  subject  with  him,  and 
then  putting  the  school  through  a  character 
drill,  that  can  be  made  very  popular  with 
the  pupils.  The  teacher  can  prepare  the 
school  for  this  and  thereby  incite  the  pupils 
to  commendable  pride  in  preparing  for  his 
coming. 

It  is  not  intended  to  go  exhaustively  into 
details  as  to  what  can  be  done  in  each  de- 
partment, but  sufficiently  to  give  the  reader 
a  general  idea  of  what  may  be  accomplished. 

The  Chubch  Department 

The  secretary  of  the  church  department 
will  be  in  touch  with  the  church  organiza- 
tions and  his  work  will  be  through  the  min- 
isters, where  the  opportunity  will  be  for  ex- 
erting a  most  powerful  influence  in  charac- 
ter building.     It  will  be  left  to  him  and  the 


152  THE  REMEDY 

heads  of  the  church  organizations  to  work 
©ut  the  details  of  this  department. 

The  Press  Department 

The  secretary  of  the  press  department 
will  co-operate  with  the  newspapers  in  the 
promotion  of  the  movement.  Their  aid  will 
be  most  important  and  cannot  be  overesti- 
mated. 

The  handling  of  the  news,  local  and  gen- 
eral, often  has  a  bearing  on  character  build- 
ing and  the  editorial  support  of  the  news- 
papers is  indispensable  to  the  success  of  the 
movement.  It  will  at  once  occur  to  all  in- 
telligent editors  the  importance  of  the  move- 
ment and  how  they  can  co-operate. 

This  will  be  a  most  important  depart- 
ment and  we  will  let  the  secretary  and  the 
editors  and  proprietors  of  newspapers  work 
out  the  details. 

Thij  Literary  Department 

The  secretary  of  the  literary  depart- 
ment will  put  himself  in  touch  with  maga- 
zines and  authors  of  stories  and  books ;  also 
the  writers  of  plays  and  managers  of  plays. 
The  stage  itself  presents  a  wide  field  and 
when  the  multitude  of  people,  daily,  attend- 
ing moving  picture  shows,  are  considered, 
the  stage,  alone,  presents  opportunities  in 
character  building  that  is  very  great. 


THE  REMEDY  153 

The  stage  might  well  be  a  department 
to  itself  but  as  plays,  in  the  main,  are  taken 
from  stories  and  books  first  written,  the  two 
for  the  present  may  be  classed  under  one 
head. 

The  movement  in  general,  the  work  of  all 
the  departments,  will  have  an  influence  on 
the  writers  of  fiction  and  plays  and  many 
of  the  best  educational  lessons  that  will  be 
taught  will  come  from  these  two  sources. 
A  story  or  a  play  does  not  need  to  be  heavy 
or  loaded  down  in  teaching ;  in  fact,  it  would 
be  less  effective  if  this  were  done ;  but  in  a 
story  or  play,  something  said  now  and  then 
or  a  thread  of  character  and  refinement 
running  through  it,  or  amidst  humor  and 
drama,  a  moral  lesson  may  be  taught  and 
can  make  a  story  or  play  very  valuable  in 
character  building. 

The  Treasury  Department 

The  secretary  of  the  treasury  depart- 
ment will  have  charge  of  promoting  the 
finances  of  the  organization. 

As  has  been  before  stated,  money  is  the 
blood  of  civilization  and  there  can  be  no 
civilization  without  it,  so,  it  is  necessary 
for  this  organization  to  exist.  It  will  have 
to  have  a  home,  its  officers  and  agents  who 
will  give  all  their  time  to  its  work,  will  need 
to  be  paid,  for  we  want  them  to  be  efficient 


154  THE  REMEDY 

and  untiring  in  their  work  and  that  can  only 
be  done  by  their  devoting  their  minds  and 
energy  to  its  accomplishment  and  having  no 
other  vocation.  And  there  will  be  postage 
and  other  and  many  detailed  expenses,  the 
whole  aggregating  yearly,  even  monthly,  a 
large  sum,  for  the  work  will  cover  a  big 
field. 

We  will  rely  on  this  money  to  come,  from 
year  to  year,  voluntarily,  from  thousands 
of  people.  Millions  of  dollars,  each  year, 
are  donated  by  the  people  of  the  world  to 
education  in  one  form  or  another ;  and  we 
will  confidently  rely  on  the  comparatively 
small  sum  needed  to  finance  this  movement ; 
—  hoping  that  it  will  be  sufficiently  gener- 
ous to  make  efficient  the  work  of  its  organi- 
zation. 

The  secretary  of  the  treasury  depart- 
ment will  look  after  the  source  of  all 
moneyed  income.  He  will  not  be  the  cus- 
todian of  the  money.  The  man  receiving 
the  money  will  be  the  treasurer,  selected  by 
the  Board  of  Governors,  and  they  will  also 
elect  an  auditor  to  check  up  each  transac- 
tion and  see  what  money  is  being  received 
and  what  it  is  being  spent  for. 

The  secretary  of  the  treasury  will  be 
promoting  the  income  and  the  treasurer 
will  be  receiving  and  disbursing  the  money. 

This  book,  when  permanent  organiza- 


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tion  is  reached,  will  be  rewritten  making 
such  changes  as  the  Governing  Board  may- 
direct,  showing  permanent  organization. 
The  secretary  of  the  treasury  will  then  have 
charge  of  promoting  its  circulation  and  all 
profits  from  its  sale  will  belong  to  the  organ- 
ization ;  as  in  like  manner  the  profits,  if  any, 
from  the  sale  of  any  other  books  controlled 
by  the  organization.  Not  that  there  will 
be  any  special  intention  to  make  a  profit  on 
such  books,  but  if  any  profit  is  made  on 
books  it  produces,  it  will  belong  to  the  or- 
ganization. 

The  Charteb 

The  laws  of  all  the  states  provide  for  in- 
corporating an  organization,  "not  for 
profit,"  and  we  should  secure  a  charter  for 
our  organization  from  one  of  the  states  un- 
der this  law. 

It  should  have  a  Board  of  Directors,  or 
Governing  Board,  that  will  adopt  by-laws 
and  elect  a  chief  ofiicer  to  be  Imown  as  Pres- 
ident or  The  Teacher,  or  other  title  by  which 
he  may  be  designated ;  and  elect  a  Treasurer 
and  Auditor.  The  charter,  I  think,  may 
name  the  Directors  or  Board  with  which  the 
movement  may  start.  In  this  respect,  we 
will  be  governed  by  the  laws  of  the  state  se- 
lected, under  which  we  will  incorporate. 

I  think  the  chief  authority  and  responsi- 


156  THE  REMEDY 

bility  for  execntive  work  should  be  vested  in 
the  president,  we  will  call  him  that  for  the 
present,  and  he  looked  to  for  results.  It  is 
the  experience  of  all  successful  men  that  the 
best  results  are  obtained  by  concentrating 
authority  and  responsibility  for  executive 
work,  in  one  man — with  a  Governing  Board 
behind  him  that  can  remove  him  if  he  does 
not  show  results. 

The  president  should  appoint  the  heads 
of  the  six  departments.  While  the  presi- 
dent will  have  the  six  secretaries  to  consult 
and  advise  with,  he  should  also  advise,  when 
opportunity  offers,  with  the  members  of  the 
Governing  Board. 

The  Governing  Board  will  adopt  by- 
laws, prescribing  the  work,  purpose  and  ob- 
ject of  the  organization  and  its  limitations, 
and  will  provide  a  method  of  electing  future 
Governing  Boards  and  for  filling  vacancies ; 
and  will  elect  its  officers. 

The  President  should  be  the  chief  officer 
directing  the  policy  and  work  of  the  organ- 
ization within  the  limits  prescribed  by  the 
Governing  Board ;  and  be  the  general  man- 
ager of  all  things  incurring  financial  obli- 
gation and  responsibilities. 

The  Treasurer  should  receive  and  dis- 
burse all  money,  keeping  an  intelligent  and 
practical  account  thereof.  He  should  pay 
out  money,  only  on  a  voucher-check  signed 


THE  EEMEDY  157 

by  the  secretary  of  the  department  in  which 
the  expense  originates  and  approved  by  the 
signature  of  the  president.  If  the  expense 
originates  in  the  general  management  and 
not  in  one  of  the  departments,  the  voucher 
should  be  signed  by  either  the  Chairman  of 
the  Governing  Board  or  by  the  president 
and  by  the  secretary  of  the  treasury.  All 
voucher-checks  directing  the  payment  of 
money  by  the  treasurer  should  show  who  is 
receiving  it  and  what  for  and  the  payee's 
receipt  thereon  for  the  money. 

The  Auditor  should  be  an  expert  ac- 
countant, to  audit  the  receipts  and  disburse- 
ments of  the  treasurer  and  the  expense  of 
each  department  and  report  to  the  presi- 
dent and  the  Chairman  of  the  Governing 
Board. 

I  have  suggested  no  name  for  the  organ- 
ization, that  being  a  matter  to  be  deter- 
mined when  permanent  organization  is 
effected. 


CHAPTER  X 

Tempoeaey  Organization 

THERE  is  much  to  do  to  secure  per- 
manent organization.  It  will  require 
time,  work  and  the  help  of  many.  And 
something  like  a  temporary  organization  is 
necessary  to  secure  permanent  organization 
and  put  the  movement  on  its  feet. 

I  will  take  the  initiative  and  as  the  move- 
ment develops,  from  those  who  get  behind 
it,  I  will  select  a  temporary  Board  of  Gov- 
ernors whose  counsel  and  advice  will  aid 
and  assist  me. 

I  will  provide  for  a  royalty,  with  the  pub- 
lishers of  this  book  and  will  use  it  all  toward 
the  expense  of  securing  permanent  organ- 
ization ;  and  will  render  an  accounting  of  it 
to  the  permanent  organization.  When  per- 
manent organization  is  reached,  the  book 
will  belong  to  the  organization.  In  trans- 
ferring all  my  rights  therein  to  it,  it  will 
then  go  to  its  second  edition  and  all  royalty 
thereafter  on  the  book  will  be  paid  direct  to 
our  permanent  Treasurer  and  will  belong  to 
the  organization.  The  second  edition  will 
differ  from  this  edition  in  that  it  will  show 
permanent  organization  established,  who 
constitutes  the  Governing  Board  and  who 
158 


THE  REMEDY  159 

the  officers  are.  Those  contributing  will  be 
advised  in  advance  of  organization  and 
given  an  opportunity  to  vote  on  who  will 
compose  the  Governing  Board,  and  the  lat- 
ter will  be  selected  by  this  method  —  the 
Governing  Board  electing  the  officers. 

In  the  last  pages  of  this  edition  will  be 
found  two  kinds  of  contribution  blanks  for 
use  in  aiding  to  finance  the  movement.  One 
class  of  the  blanks,  Form  A,  is  for  contribu- 
tions toward  the  $250,000,  or  more  that  is  to 
be  first  subscribed  before  permanent  organ- 
ization is  perfected ;  and,  payment  is  condi- 
tional on  $250,000  being  first  subscribed, 
permanent  organization  effected  and  a 
Treasurer  elected  to  receive  the  money. 

The  other  contribution  blank.  Form  B,  is 
for  immediate  assistance,  financial,  to  assist 
the  temporary  organization  in  its  work  in 
securing  permanent  organization  as  speed- 
ily as  possible.  I  have  appointed  Mr.  Perry 
N.  Clark,  cashier  of  the  Farmers  State  Bank 
of  Rogers,  Arkansas,  as  treasurer  of  the 
temporary  fund.  Form  B,  and  he  consents  to 
act  as  such  treasurer.  On  the  contribution 
blank  will  be  found  printed  information  as 
to  the  use  of  this  fund. 

I  know  Mr.  Clark,  who  will  act  as  tem- 
porary treasurer,  pending  permanent  or- 
ganization, and  my  favorable  attention  was 
recently  attracted  to  him  by  his  delivering 


160  THE  REMEDY 

a  lecture  before  the  teachers'  institute,  in 
our  county,  on  the  importance  of  character 
teaching  in  the  schools.  We  live  only  five 
miles  apart  and  can  communicate  by  phone. 
He  will  act  as  treasurer  only  of  money  con- 
tributed on  Form  B.  The  contributions 
under  Form  A  are  not  payable  until  the 
whole  $250,000  is  subscribed,  which  will  be 
paid  to  a  treasurer  elected  by  the  Board  of 
Governors. 

Any  one  who  has  had  experience  in  pro- 
moting the  sale  of  the  capital  stock  of  a  com- 
pany, that  looked  to  popular  subscriptions 
to  finance  the  enterprise,  knows  of  the  ex- 
pense incurred,  and  necessary,  in  the  sale  of 
the  stock,  and  without  which  it  could  not 
have  been  accomplished.  In  our  case,  this 
expense  will  be  limited  in  proportion  to  the 
number  of  volunteers  who  assist  and  their 
success  in  securing  subscriptions  to  the 
$250,000  fund.  An  army  of  volunteers  will 
make  quick  work  of  it,  and  would  reduce 
the  expense  at  the  main  office,  mainly,  to 
clerical  help,  postage  and  printing.  We 
wdll  aim  to  reach  all  the  proprietors  and 
editors  of  newspapers  in  the  United  States 
as  soon  as  practical  with  a  letter  and  a  com- 
plimentary copy  of  the  book  and  this  will  be 
done  at  considerable  expense;  and  is  here 
mentioned  as  one  of  the  items  of  expense 
that  will  be  necessary  preceding  permanent 


THE  REMEDY  161 

organization.  The  home  office  for  tempo- 
rary organization  will  be  at  Monte  Ne,  Ar- 
kansas, and  all  letters  may  be  addressed  to 
me  until  a  temporary  secretary  is  an- 
nounced. 

The  second  edition  of  the  book,  found- 
ing the  organization,  will  print  the  names 
and  addresses  of  all  persons  who  have  con- 
tributed to  either  the  permanent  or  tempo- 
rary fund,  giving  the  amount  of  each  con- 
tribution, thus  making  a  permanent  record 
of  the  names  of  those  who  assisted  in  start- 
ing this  world's  movement.  This  is  re- 
garded as  important  for  the  reason  that  the 
movement  will  have  just  begun,  with  so 
much  depending  on  its  future  growth  and 
influence;  and  one  of  the  elements  of 
strength  to  give  it  growth  and  influence  will 
be  the  long  list  of  names  of  those  who  have 
contributed  towards  starting  it.  It  will 
give  to  the  movement  added  prestige  and 
importance  and  make  more  certain  its  an- 
nual income  from  future  contributions. 

After  the  circulation  of  this  edition  has 
reached  a  creditable  number,  I  ^vill  have  the 
publisher  print  about  monthly  on  future 
copies  coming  from  the  press,  a  page  in  the 
back  of  the  book,  giving  the  circulation  of  it 
to  date,  number  and  aggregate  amount  of 
contributions  received  and  other  informa- 


162  THE  REMEDY 

tion  with  a  date  on  the  page  giving  the 
time  the  information  is  given  out. 

And,  I  now  submit,  the  whole  proposi- 
tion, to  all  thinking  men  and  women,  who 
feel  an  interest  in  and  concern  for  the  fu- 
ture of  our  civilization. 

THE  END 


BY  THE  PUBLISHERS 

THE  Mundus  Publishing  Company  has 
been  formed  to  take  charge  of  the  pub- 
lication of  The  Remedy.  It  was  deemed 
best  that  its  publication  should  be  managed 
by  a  company  in  sympathy  with  the  movement 
the  book  proposes.  Hence,  the  step  taken  to 
put  it  in  the  hands  of  its  friends. 

A  publisher  is  the  promoter  of  one  or  more 
books.  And  a  publishing  house  that  is  the  pub- 
lisher of  many  books,  on  taking  one  more, 
as  a  rule,  lists  it  in  its  catalogue  and  gives  it 
general  attention,  only,  in  connection  with  its 
other  books;  usually,  viewing  each  book  from 
a  commercial  standpoint  only. 

The  possibilities  of  an  important  and  popular 
book  for  acquiring  an  extensive  circulation  is 
very  great  if  properly  promoted ;  and,  believing 
that  The  Remedy  is  such  a  book,  we  will 
use  our  utmost  endeavors  to  give  it  the  circula- 
tion it  merits. 

We  have  arranged  with  The  Western  News 
Company,  of  Chicago,  and  its  affiliated  Whole- 
sale News  Companies,  practically  covering  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  to  handle  the  book 
and  supply  the  trade.  By  this  special  arrange- 
ment the  book-stores  and  newsdealers  will  have 
no  trouble  or  delay  in  securing  it  from  their 
Wholesale  News  Houses.  Liberal  terms  will  be 
made  on  the  book  to  the  trade. 
163 


164  -  THE  REMEDY 

It  is  important  that  the  book  should  reach 
readers,  to  whom  it  is  not  convenient  to  secure 
it  at  book-stores  and  news-stands ;  and,  this  sug- 
gests agents  who  will  take  it  into  the  remotest 
districts.  We  believe  that  many  men  and  women 
and  boys  will  act  as  agents  for  this  book  who 
would  not,  ordinarily,  act  as  the  agent  of  a  book. 
It  is  one  way  that  many  may  help  the  great 
cause  the  book  represents. 

A  Special  Department 

To  encourage  such  persons  an  Agents'  De- 
partment will  be  established.  This  department 
will  be  exclusively  conducted  through  a 
Branch  Office  that  we  will  at  once  establish  at 
Monte  Ne,  Arkansas,  in  order  that  its  work 
may  be  under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  Harvey, 
the  founder  of  the  movement.  All  w^ho  wish  to 
handle  the  book,  as  agents,  will  address  The 
Mundus  Publishing  Company,  Branch  Office, 
Monte  Ne,  Arkansas. 

What  is  here  said  as  to  agents,  also  applies 
to  those  who  wish  to  buy  the  book,  in  lots,  to  give 
away,  or  to  start  circulating  libraries.  They, 
too,  will  address  our  Branch  Office  at  Monte  Ne, 
Arkansas,  where  Mr.  Harvey  will  personally  be 
in  touch  with  the  work  of  this  special  depart- 
ment. 

If  the  movement  promoted  by  The  Remedy 
is  to  have  the  success  contemplated  by  its  friends 
who  are  already  familiar  with  the  contents  of 
the  book,  we  are  not  laying  too  broadly  our 
plans  for  its  circulation. 

The  book  w411  be  sold  at  the  lowest  possible 


■    THE  REMEDY  165 

price  consistent  with  its  successful  promotion. 
The  price,  in  single  copies,  will  be  50  cents,  with 
a  liberal  discount  to  the  trade,  to  agents  and  to 
those  who  want  them  in  lots  of  ten  or  more  to 
give  away.  It  will  be  published  only  in  cloth 
binding  and  printed  on  good  paper.  It  is  not 
deemed  advisable  to  print  it  in  paper  cover.  A 
book  so  bound,  soon  goes  to  pieces  and  dis- 
appears from  circulation ;  and  has  no  value  as  a 
library  book. 

The  Remedy  is  a  book  to  be  preserved  and 
read  again  and  again,  in  the  years  to  come — 
and  any  one  would,  probably,  rather  pay  50 
cents  for  it  bound  in  cloth  than  25  cents  for  it 
bound  in  paper,  the  cover  of  which  would  soon 
curl  up,  be  torn  off  and  the  book  lost.  One  of 
the  books,  sold,  bound  in  cloth,  will  in  time, 
have  more  readers  than  two,  sold,  bound  in 
paper  cover. 

Who  Mr.  Harvey  Is 

And  now  a  few  words  as  to  who  Mr.  Har- 
vey is.  *He  is  the  same  man  who  wrote  Coin's 
Financial  School,  and  A  Tale  of  Two  Nations, 
pubhshed  in  1894;  that  had  an  extensive  cir- 
culation in  the  United  States,  reaching  the  un- 
precedented number  of  two  million  copies  by 
the  summer  of  1895,  in  one  year;  having  more 
influence  than  any  other  one  agency  in  bring- 
ing on  the  remarkable  campaign  of  1896.  The 
"School"  was  translated  into  nearly  all  the 
foreign  languages  of  the  principal  govern- 
ments of  Europe,  its  circulation,  finally,  reach- 
ing millions  of  copies. 


166  THE  REMEDY 

His  two  books,  of  that  time,  dealt  with  the 
silver  question.  Mr.  Harvey  now  says  on  that 
subject,  'The  increased  production  of  gold 
since  1894,  has  settled  that  question.  From  a 
world's  production  of  gold  in  1894,  of  about 
150  million  dollars,  it  has  since  increased  to 
nearly  500  million  dollars  annually;  about 
double  the  world's  annual  production  of  both 
gold  and  silver  in  1894.  What  we  contended 
for  then,  was  a  larger  volume  of  money;  and 
we  believe  that  the  great  educational  movement 
of  that  period  in  which  tens  of  thousands  took 
part,  helped  to  bring  it  about.  The  subject 
being  discussed,  practically  world-wide,  caused 
probably,  as  many  as  ten  men  to  go  looking 
for  gold,  to  where  there  would  have  been  only 
two  or  three  prospecting  for  it,  if  the  question 
had  remained  quiescent;  thus  giving  the  world 
a  greater  volume  of  primary  money  —  the  same 
object,  in  a  way,  that  would  have  been  accom- 
plished by  the  remonetization  of  silver." 

Mr.  Harvey  has  never  written  a  book  ex- 
cept with  a  purpose  to  promote  the  general  wel- 
fare. He  is  now  living  in  the  Ozark  Mountains, 
in  Benton  County,  Arkansas,  at  Monte  Ne,  a 
village  founded  by  him  at  a  beautiful  and 
healthful  place  where  he  expects  to  continue  to 
make  his  home. 

This  book,  The  Remedy,  is  copyrighted  by 
Mr.  Harvey,  which  it  is  wise  to  do,  as  it  gives 
him  the  right  to  say  who  can  publish  it,  and, 
know  when  it  is  printed  that  it  is  printed  right. 
If  any  one  had  a  right  to  publish  it,  which 
would  be  the  case  if  it  were  not  copyrighted, 


THE  REMEDY  167 

there  would  be  no  practical  method  for  putting 
business  organization  behind  the  circulation  of 
the  book. 

He  requests  us  to  say,  in  this  connection, 
that  all  publications  may  quote  from  it,  using 
any  part  or  parts  of  it,  in  connection  with  com- 
ments thereon,  without  its  being  regarded  as  an 
infringement  on  the  copyright.  When  per- 
manent organization  of  the  movement  the  book 
promotes  is  perfected,  Mr.  Harvey  will  transfer 
all  his  rights  in  the  book  to  the  organization; 
and  in  the  meantime  will  use  all  the  royalty 
we  will  pay  him,  which  is  the  usual  and  cus- 
tomary royalty,  in  promoting  the  movement  to 
a  permanent  organization. 

Its  Possibilities 

The  Remedy  has  been  carefully  read  and 
considered  by  many  representative  citizens, 
before  being  printed;  a  sufficient  number,  we 
believe,  to  get  a  concensus  of  opinion  as  to 
how  it  will  be  received ;  —  and  the  uniform 
opinion  is  that  it  presents  a  real  and  substantial 
remedy,  and,  one  that  is  practical ;  provided,  a 
sufficient  number  of  men  and  women  interest 
themselves  in  it  and  apply  it ;  —  and  it  will  now 
enter  upon  its  mission  of  testing  the  sentiment 
of  the  people.  Much  will  depend  on  the  inter- 
est taken  and  the  assistance  and  co-operation  re- 
ceived in  bringing  it  to  the  attention  of,  prac- 
tically, all  the  people ;  for,  one  of  the  distinctive 
merits  of  the  remedy,  is,  that  it  presents  a  plan 
at  which  all  can  help. 


168  THE  EEMEDY 

If  it  meets  with  success  in  perfecting  a  per- 
manent  organization,  it  will  become  one  of  the 
most  powerful  educational  organizations  in  the 
World.  And,  sufficiently  financed  and  re- 
sourcefully managed,  its  possibilities  are,  prac- 
tically, unlimited. 

And,  now,  as  publishers  of  the  book,  we  wish 
to  say  to  its  readers  that  we  have  undertaken  a 
great  task,  and,  will  fall  short  of  what  is  needed 
without  the  co-operation  of  thousands  of  people. 
While  we  can  put  behind  it  business  system  and 
organization,  the  greatest  help  of  all  will  be  the 
assistance  of  others  in  aiding  to  promote  its  cir- 
culation. See  that  your  book-store  and  news- 
dealer carries  it  to  meet  the  demand  for  it.  Do 
what  you  can  to  have  the  school  teachers  use 
the  School  Booklet  which  is  printed  separately 
and  now  ready  for  use  in  schools.  See  separate 
page  giving  prices.  While  the  school  booklet 
may  be  revised  by  the  permanent  organization, 
it  is  not  necessary  to  wait  till  then  to  begin  this 
great  educational  movement  in  the  schools, 
where  it  is  now  so  urgently  needed. 

Again  inviting  the  assistance  of  one  and  all 
and  hoping  that  a  copy  of  this  book,  in  time, 
will  be  in  every  household,  where  the  sons  and 
daughters  will  have  an  opportunity  to  read  it, 
we  are, 

Respectfully, 
The  Mundus  Publishing  Company, 
Chicago,  111. 


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Dollars 

($ )  to  the  educational  movement  to  pro- 
mote Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  book,  en- 
titled The  Remedy,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
when  the  sum  of  $250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
persons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


(NAine) 


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(Dat«)  (Street  No.  if  In  Cltj) 


CAUTION 

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their  names  and  addresses  plainly,  so  as  to  reduce  the 
possibility  of  getting  names  wrong  at  the  Home  Office. 
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edged by  letter  giving  the  progress  of  the  movement. 
For  the  present  address  all  communications  to, 

Wm.  H.  Harvey, 

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Contribution  Blank 
FORM  A 

The  undersigned  agrees  to  contribute  the  sum  of 


Dollars 

($ )  to  the  educational  viovement  to  pro- 
mote Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  book,  en- 
titled The  Remedy,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
when  the  sum  of  $250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
persons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


(Name) 


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(D«t«)  (SUeet  No.  if  in  Cltr) 


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edged by  letter  giving  the  progress  of  the  movement. 
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Contribution  Blank 
FORM  A 

The  undersigned  agrees  to  contribute  the  sum  of 


Dollars 

($ )  to  the  educational  movement  to  pro- 
mote Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  book,  en- 
titled The  Remedy,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
when  the  sum  of  $250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
iPersons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


(Name) 


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(Street  No.  if  in  Cltyt 


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Dollars 

(I )  to  the  educational  movement  to  pro- 
mote Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  book,  en- 
titled The  Remedy,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
when  the  sum  of  $250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
persons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


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Dollars 

($ )    to  the  educational  movement  to  pro- 

m,ote  Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  book,  en- 
titled The  Remedy,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
when  the  sum  of  $250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
persons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


(Name) 


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(Dat*)  (Street  No.  U  in  CUr) 


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Contribution  Blank 
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Dollars 

{% )  to  the  educational  movement  to  pro- 
mote Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  book,  en- 
titled The  REMBajY,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
when  the  sum  of  |250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
persons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


(Name) 


(Fbetofflce)  (SUte) 


(Date)  (Street  No.  if  in  Citj) 


CAUTION 

Those  signing  contribution  blanks,  will  please  write 
their  names  and  addresses  plainly,  so  as  to  reduce  the 
possibility  of  getting  names  wrong  at  the  Home  Office. 
Each  subscription  received  will  be  promptly  acknowl- 
edged by  letter  giving  the  progress  of  the  movement. 
For  the  present  address  all  communications  to, 

Wm.  H.  Harvey, 

Monte  Ne,  Ark. 


Contribution  Blank 
FORM  A 

The  undersigned  agrees  to  contribute  the  sum  of 


Dollars 

($ )  to  the  educational  movement  to  pro- 
mote Character  Teaching,  explained  in  the  l)ook,  en- 
titled The  Remedy,  by  William  H.  Harvey,  payable 
wjien  the  sum  of  $250,000,  at  least,  has  been  sub- 
scribed, for  that  purpose,  and,  the  movement  is  organ- 
ized by  a  charter,  has  a  Governing  Board  or  Directory, 
composed  of  twelve  or  more  responsible  and  reliable 
persons,  who  have  selected  a  treasurer  to  receive  the 
money.  And,  if  I  so  elect,  I  will  make  my  contribu- 
tions in  four  equal  monthly  payments. 


(Name) 


(Postofflce)  (State) 


(Date)  (Btreet  No.  if  in  Cltr) 


CAUTION 

Those  signing  contribution  blanks,  will  please  write 
their  names  and  addresses  plainly,  so  as  to  reduce  the 
possibility  of  getting  names  wrong  at  the  Home  Office. 
Each  subscription  received  will  be  promptly  acknowl- 
edged by  letter  giving  the  progress  of  the  movement. 
For  the  present  address  all  communications  to, 

Wm.  H.  Harvey, 

Monte  Ne,  Ark. 


Contribution  Blank 
FORM  B 

The  undersigned  hereby  contributes  the  sum  of 

Dollars 

($ ),  herewith  enclosed,  to  assist  the  work 

of  promoting  the  permanent  organization  of  the  edu- 
cational movement  for  promoting  Character  Teaching, 
explained  in  the  hook,  entitled  The  Remedy,  by  Wil- 
liam H.  Harvey. 

(Najae) 

(Postofflce)  (State) 


(Street  No.  if  in  CUy> 


DIRECTIONS 

In  remitting  use  personal  check,  bank  draft,  express 
or  postofflce  money  order,  payable  to  Perry  N.  Clark, 
treasurer,  and  mail  to  him  at  Rogers,  Arkansas.  This 
money  is  to  be  used  in  promoting  permanent  organiza- 
tion and  will  be  paid  out  by  Mr.  Clark,  who  acts  as  the 
temporary  treasurer  of  the  fund,  only  on  a  voucher- 
check,  itemizing  the  account,  signed  by  the  Chairman  or 
vice-Chairman  and  Secretary  of  a  temporary  Board  of 
Governors.  The  contributor  will  receive  an  acknowledg- 
ment by  return  mail  from  Mr.  Clark;  Mr.  Clark  will 
notify  the  Home  Office  at  Monte  Ne.  and  a  letter  from 
there  to  the  contributor  will  follow,  giving  Information 
on  the  movement  to-date.  Please  write  your  name  and 
address  plainly.   Address, 

Perry  N.  Clark,  Cashier, 

Farmers'  State  Bank, 

Rogers,  Arkansas. 


Contribution  Blank 
FORM  B 

The  undersigned  hereby  contributes  the  sum  of 

Dollars 

($ ),  herewith  enclosed,  to  assist  the  work 

of  promoting  the  permanent  organization  of  the  edu- 
cational movement  for  promoting  Character  Teaching, 
explained  in  the  book,  entitled  The  Remedy,  by  WiU 
liam  H.  Harvey. 

(Name) 

(Postoffloe)  (SUte) 


(Date)  (Street  Na   if  in  City) 


DIRECTIONS 

In  remitting  use  personal  check,  bank  draft,  express 
or  postofflce  money  order,  payable  to  Perry  N.  Clark, 
treasurer,  and  mail  to  him  at  Rogers,  Arkansas.  This 
money  is  to  be  used  In  promoting  permanent  organiza- 
tion and  will  be  paid  out  by  Mr.  CHark,  who  acts  as  the 
temporary  treasurer  of  the  fund,  only  on  a  voucher- 
check,  itemizing  the  account,  signed  by  the  Chairman  or 
vice-Chairman  and  Secretary  of  a  temporary  Boara  of 
Governors.  The  contributor  will  receive  an  acknowledg- 
ment by  return  mail  from  Mr.  Clark;  Mr.  Clark  will 
notify  the  Home  Office  at  Monte  Ne,  and  a  letter  from 
there  to  the  contributor  will  follow,  giving  information 
on  the  movement  to-date.  f  lease  write  your  name  and 
address  plainly.   Address, 

Perry  N.  Clark,  Cashier, 

Farmers'  State  Bank, 

Rogers,  Arkansas. 


Contribution  Blank 
FORM  B 

The  undersigned  hereby  contributes  the  sum  of 

Dollars 

(I ),  herewith  enclosed,  to  assist  the  work 

of  promoting  the  permanent  organization  of  the  edu- 
cational movement  for  promoting  Character  Teaching, 
explained  in  the  book,  entitled  The  Remedy,  by  Wil- 
liam H.  Harvey. 

(Name) 

(Postofflce)  (State) 


(D«te)  (Street  No.  U  In  City) 


DIRECTIONS 

In  remitting  use  personal  check,  bank  draft,  express 
or  postofflce  money  order,  payable  to  Perry  N.  Clark, 
treasurer,  and  mail  to  him  at  Rogers,  Arkansas.  This 
money  is  to  be  used  in  promoting  permanent  organiza- 
tion and  will  be  paid  out  by  Mr.  CHark,  who  acts  as  the 
temporary  treasurer  of  the  fund,  only  on  a  voucher- 
check,  itemizing  the  account,  signed  by  the  Chairman  or 
vice-Chairman  and  Secretary  of  a  temporary  Board  of 
Governors.  The  contributor  will  receive  an  acknowledg- 
ment by  return  mail  from  Mr.  Clark;  Mr.  Clark  will 
notify  the  Home  Office  at  Monte  Ne,  and  a  letter  from 
there  to  the  contributor  will  follow,  giving  information 
on  the  movement  to-date.  Please  write  your  name  and 
address  plainly.   Address, 

Perry  N.  Clark,  Cashier, 

Farmers'  State  Bank, 

Rogers,  Arkansas. 


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The  School  Booklet 

Character  Building 

For  Use  In  Schools 


ILLUSTRATED 

The  school  booklet  printed  in  The  Remedy  is 
published  separately  in  a  32-page 

SCHOOL  BOOKLET 

Securely  bound,  neatly  printed  and  now  ready. 


Price  of  single  copy 10  cents  each 

Ten  or  more  copies 8  cents  each 

Fifty  or  more  copies 7  cents  each 

One  hundred  or  more  copies. .  6  cents  each 


In  single  copies,  10  cents,  lots  less  than  50 
copies,  8  cents  each;  we  send  by  mail,  parcel 
post,  prepaying  postage.  In  lots  of  50  copies 
or  more,  7  cents  each,  or  100  copies  or  more, 
6  cents  each;  we  send  by  express  or  parcel 
post,  carrying  charges  collect. 

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Branch  Office 

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Character  Builders 


The  author  of  The  Remedy,  takes  pleasure 
in  recommending  the  reading  of  the  books 
listed  on  this  page.  We  start  the  list,  now, 
with  two  books,  and  will  add  others  when 
Mr.  Harvey  from  his  own  reading  discovers 
them.  This  is  done  voluntarily  and  without 
the  knowledge  of  the  publishers  or  authors  of 
the  books. 


POLLYANNA.  By  Eleanor  H.  Porter. 
Publishers,  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.,  Boston. 

THE  EYES  OF  THE  WORLD.  By 
Harold  Bell  Wright.  Publishers,  The 
Book  Supply  Company,    Chicago. 


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